Brazil, IN has a F safety grade (20/100) with a violent crime rate of 644 per 100,000, 83% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Brazil is a small municipal reporter (8,228 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with IN and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Brazil, IN carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 83% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Brazil, IN shows violent crime at 644.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,847.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 83% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 644.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Brazil ranks 7 of 113 — above 106 of the 112 other Indiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +314.8% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Brazil's 644.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Muncie (602.4), Lafayette (599.7), Terre Haute (550.1), Hammond (741.3). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 25.9% of the 205 Part I offenses reported in Brazil for 2024, against a median of 13.5% across comparable Indiana cities — a gap of 12.4 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 71.1% of reported property offenses in Brazil, against a cohort median of 82.0%. The remainder is burglary (26) and motor vehicle theft (18). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2021–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 626.4 per 100,000 in 2021 to 644.1 in 2024 (+2.8%). The highest observed value was 723.6 in 2022 and the lowest 599.0 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Brazil'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 3.7 Census sq mi, Brazil logged 41.2 property and 14.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Brazil leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,527.
Violent offenses are 26% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Brazil offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 152 | 1847.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 108 | 1312.6 |
| Burglary | 26 | 316 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 18 | 218.8 |
| Arson | 2 | 24.3 |
| Violent Crime | 53 | 644.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 46 | 559.1 |
| Rape | 6 | 72.9 |
| Robbery | 1 | 12.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2020 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2021-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Insufficient reporting | 7,985 | - | - |
| 2021 | Comparable | 7,982 | 626.4 | 2217.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,154 | 723.6 | 1766 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,180 | 599 | 1882.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,228 | 644.1 | 1847.4 |
Brazil Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Brazil's 205 reported offenses (4-year span 2021-2024).
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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Indiana cities closest to Brazil in population. Their populations run from 6,571 to 9,488, against 8,228 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Brazil sits at 644.1/100K violent (grade F); the Indiana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Brazil reported 53 violent crimes and 152 property crimes, for a total of 205 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Brazil's violent crime rate increased by 7.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 1.9%.
The most common crime type in Brazil is larceny-theft, accounting for 52.7% of all reported crimes (108 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Brazil is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Brazil's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Brazil, IN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Brazil is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (8,228 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.