Bloomington, IN has a C safety grade (48/100) with a violent crime rate of 287 per 100,000, 18% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Bloomington, IN Crime Rate & Safety
At 78,762 residents, Bloomington is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against IN and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Bloomington, IN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 18% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bloomington, IN shows violent crime at 286.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,718.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 18% 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
286.9/100K violent
2718.3/100K property
-18% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Bloomington, IN
Comparable rate records
Bloomington's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Indiana cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bloomington's 286.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Fremont (289.3), Michigan City (291.7), Lawrence (292.7), Bristol (280.1). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 567.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 286.9 in 2024 (-49.4%). The highest observed value was 567.5 in 2020 and the lowest 286.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Bloomington reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Indiana cities
At 286.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bloomington ranks 28 of 113 — above 85 of the 112 other Indiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +84.8% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 9.5% of the 2,367 Part I offenses reported in Bloomington for 2024, against a median of 13.6% across comparable Indiana cities — a gap of 4.0 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property counts dominate Bloomington'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Bloomington's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 23.3 Census sq mi, Bloomington logged 92.1 property and 9.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bloomington's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 2,367 offenses; mix index 6,116).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (23.3 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
-28.1%
399.3 → 286.9/100K
Property Crime Rate
+6.9%
2542.7 → 2718.3/100K
Property offenses lead Bloomington's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs IN
Property Crime
2,141
2718.3
1321
Larceny-Theft
1,832
2326
-
Burglary
178
226
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
131
166.3
-
Arson
15
19
-
Violent Crime
226
286.9
308.5
Aggravated Assault
131
166.3
-
Rape
48
60.9
-
Robbery
44
55.9
-
Murder
3
3.8
-
Bloomington Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Bloomington property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Bloomington Police Department
Reporting agency for Bloomington NIBRS-participating
Bloomington Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bloomington's 2,367 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 Bloomington in population. Their populations run from 58,536 to 75,677, against 78,762 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Bloomington reported 226 violent crimes and 2,141 property crimes, for a total of 2,367 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Bloomington?
From 2023 to 2024, Bloomington's violent crime rate decreased by 28.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 6.9%.
What is the most common crime in Bloomington?
The most common crime type in Bloomington is larceny-theft, accounting for 77.4% of all reported crimes (1,832 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Bloomington's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bloomington, IN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.