Beech Grove, IN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 21% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Beech Grove, IN shows violent crime at 279 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,653.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 21% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
279/100K violent
1653.3/100K property
-21% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Beech Grove, IN
Comparable rate records
Beech Grove's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Indiana cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Beech Grove's 279.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bristol (280.1), Huntingburg (275.8), Bloomington (286.9), McCordsville (270.3). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
Beech Grove sits mid-pack among comparable Indiana cities
At 279.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Beech Grove ranks 30 of 113 — above 83 of the 112 other Indiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +79.7% against the cohort median of 155.3. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 58.6% of reported property offenses in Beech Grove, against a cohort median of 82.0%. The remainder is burglary (25) and motor vehicle theft (73). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 319.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 279.0 in 2024 (-12.7%). The highest observed value was 514.0 in 2023 and the lowest 260.6 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Beech Grove's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Beech Grove's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 4.5 Census sq mi, Beech Grove logged 53 property and 9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Beech Grove leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,385.
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-45.7%
514 → 279/100K
Property Crime Rate
+0%
1653.2 → 1653.3/100K
Property offenses lead Beech Grove's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs IN
Property Crime
237
1653.3
1321
Larceny-Theft
139
969.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
73
509.2
-
Burglary
25
174.4
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
40
279
308.5
Aggravated Assault
24
167.4
-
Rape
9
62.8
-
Robbery
6
41.9
-
Murder
1
7
-
Beech Grove Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Beech Grove property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Beech Grove Police Department
Reporting agency for Beech Grove NIBRS-participating
Beech Grove Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Beech Grove's 277 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in Indiana
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Indiana cities closest to Beech Grove in population. Their populations run from 12,674 to 16,195, against 14,335 here. Or use our
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Beech Grove at 279/100K violent and 1,653.3/100K property - matched below outside Indiana (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Beech Grove reported 40 violent crimes and 237 property crimes, for a total of 277 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Beech Grove?
From 2023 to 2024, Beech Grove's violent crime rate decreased by 45.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 0%.
What is the most common crime in Beech Grove?
The most common crime type in Beech Grove is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.2% of all reported crimes (139 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Beech Grove figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Beech Grove, IN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.