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Safety in Sioux Falls

Sioux Falls ranks #49 of 134 US cities for staying safe, with a safety score of 64 — Fun. That puts it in the 64th percentile nationally and #1 of 1 in South Dakota.

safety score
64
Fun
National rank
#49 of 134
In South Dakota
#1 of 1
Percentile
64th

The typical city scores 50 for staying safe; Sioux Falls sits 14 points above the median.

How safety is measured

Reported violent and property crime rates.

The safety score is the flip side of our crime measure — 100 minus the raw crime score — so a city with less of it scores higher.

Data sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer and city open-data crime portals.

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around Sioux Falls

  1. T#47 Key West, FL 65
  2. T#47 St. Petersburg, FL 65
  3. #49 Sioux Falls, SD — this page 64
  4. #50 Hartford, CT 63
  5. T#51 Fort Worth, TX 62

See the full leaderboard — The safest cities in America →

Top US cities for staying safe

  1. #1 Jackson, WY 100
  2. #2 Gilbert, AZ 99
  3. T#3 Boise, ID 98
  4. T#3 Santa Clarita, CA 98
  5. #5 Irvine, CA 97

More about Sioux Falls

Sioux Falls scores 40 overall (Some Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: