Crime & Safety in Moscow
Moscow's crime data shows a real, genuinely favorable picture on both violent and overall measures -- violent crime 90% below the national average, overall crime 34% below -- and this record discloses honestly, rather than omits, a real, tragic, now-fully-adjudicated 2022 incident near campus, genuinely distinct from these ordinary statistics.
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Learn moreA real, genuinely favorable ordinary crime profile
Moscow's violent crime rate (0.9 per 1,000 residents) and property crime rate (6.7 per 1,000) both run genuinely low. The overall crime rate ran 34% below the national average, with violent crime running a real, meaningfully favorable 90% below the national average per the aggregator reviewed.
A real, tragic, and now-fully-adjudicated 2022 incident
This record discloses honestly, rather than omits, that on November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were murdered in an off-campus home near the Moscow campus -- a real, tragic, single event in a small college community that had no recorded murders since 2015. Bryan Kohberger was arrested, pled guilty, and was sentenced on July 23, 2025 to consecutive life terms without parole -- the case is fully adjudicated.
A single, extreme event, genuinely distinct from ordinary statistics
This is a single, extreme, well-documented, and now-resolved event, not a reflection of Moscow's ordinary day-to-day crime statistics (disclosed separately above, and genuinely favorable) -- this record does not conflate the two, consistent with this project's approach to similar disclosures elsewhere.
Crime concentrates geographically -- neighborhood still matters
As with most cities in this dataset, confirm a specific address directly rather than relying on a citywide figure alone, even in a genuinely low-crime market like Moscow.
Key takeaways
- Moscow's violent crime rate (0.9 per 1,000) and property crime rate (6.7 per 1,000) both run genuinely low -- 90% and 34% below national averages respectively.
- This record discloses honestly a real, tragic 2022 incident near campus, now fully adjudicated (sentencing completed July 23, 2025).
- The 2022 incident is a single, extreme, resolved event, genuinely distinct from Moscow's ordinary, favorable crime statistics.
- Confirm a specific address directly rather than relying on the citywide figure alone.
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