Crime Grade · FBI UCR Data · 2025
Pleasant Hill, IA Crime Grade
How Pleasant Hill grades for violent crime against every other reporting U.S. city — and against the rest of Iowa — based on the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting data.
National
1/10
vs. all U.S. cities ≥ 25,000 population
Iowa
1/10
vs. Iowa cities ≥ 10,000 population
In 2025, the violent crime rate in Pleasant Hill, IA was 40.2 per 100,000 residents (5 incidents over a population of 12,434). That puts Pleasant Hill 88% below the U.S. rate of 325.3 and 83% below the Iowa statewide rate of 236.6.
That ranks Pleasant Hill #363 of 3,771 ranked U.S. cities, safer than 90% of them, and #1 of 40 in Iowa. Violent crime is down 81% year over year and down 82% over the last five years.
Pleasant Hill, IA crime — key facts
- National Crime Grade
- A (1/10)
- Iowa Grade
- A (1/10)
- Violent crime rate
- 40.2 / 100k
- National rank
- #363 of 3,771
- IA rank
- #1 of 40
- Safer than
- 90% of U.S. cities
- Year over year
- down 81%
- 5-year change
- down 82%
- Population
- 12,434
- Reporting agency
- Pleasant Hill Police Department
- Data year
- 2025 · FBI UCR
Reported by Pleasant Hill Police Department (FBI ORI IA0771400) to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Download the full dataset (CSV) · methodology.
About Pleasant Hill, IA
Also known as
- Youngstown
Name history sourced from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) — public-domain federal geographic-names data.
Violent crime rate, 5-year trend
Per 100,000 residents. Pleasant Hill (red), Iowa (blue), U.S. average (gray dashed).
Pleasant Hill vs. U.S., 2025 — by offense
Rates per 100,000 residents for each offense category.
Full data, last 5 years
Rates per 100,000 residents. Raw counts in parentheses.
| Offense | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 224.9(23) | 68.9(7) | 187.1(19) | 214.2(26) | 40.2(5) |
| Murder | 0.0(0) | 9.8(1) | 0.0(0) | 0.0(0) | 0.0(0) |
| Rape | 48.9(5) | 0.0(0) | 39.4(4) | 33.0(4) | 8.0(1) |
| Robbery | 9.8(1) | 19.7(2) | 0.0(0) | 16.5(2) | 8.0(1) |
| Aggravated assault | 166.2(17) | 39.4(4) | 147.7(15) | 164.8(20) | 24.1(3) |
| Property crime | 2151.0(220) | 1959.0(199) | 2097.9(213) | 634.4(77) | 756.0(94) |
| Burglary | 586.6(60) | 383.9(39) | 581.1(59) | 16.5(2) | 40.2(5) |
| Larceny | 1202.6(123) | 1289.6(131) | 1339.5(136) | 436.7(53) | 546.9(68) |
| Motor vehicle theft | 361.8(37) | 275.6(28) | 177.3(18) | 181.3(22) | 168.9(21) |
How the Crime Grade is calculated
- What is the source of the Pleasant Hill, IA Crime Grade?
- FBI Uniform Crime Reporting via the Crime Data Explorer. Agency-level data, pulled directly. No third-party aggregators, no proprietary score.
- What metric does the Pleasant Hill Crime Grade use?
- Violent crime rate per 100,000 residents (murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault), most recent fully-reported year.
- How is the national decile for Pleasant Hill calculated?
- Pleasant Hill's rate placed against all FBI-reporting U.S. cities with population ≥ 25,000. 1 = safest.
- How is the Iowa state decile calculated?
- Same calculation restricted to Iowa cities with population ≥ 10,000.
- How do decile scores convert to a letter grade?
- 1–3 = A · 4–5 = B · 6–7 = C · 8 = D · 9–10 = F.
- How often is the Pleasant Hill Crime Grade refreshed?
- Twice a year. The FBI typically releases the prior year's full data each September.
- What are the limits of this Crime Grade?
- The FBI relies on local agency reporting. Rates reflect what was reported, not what occurred.
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