Crawfordsville, IN has a A safety grade (76/100) with a violent crime rate of 186 per 100,000, 47% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Crawfordsville (16,662 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then IN and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Crawfordsville, IN carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 47% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Crawfordsville, IN shows violent crime at 186.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 642.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 47% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 725.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 186.1 in 2024 (-74.3%). The highest observed value was 725.0 in 2020 and the lowest 186.1 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Crawfordsville's 186.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bluffton (180.6), Albion (179.9), Greensburg (194.0), Tipton (172.1). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 22.5% of the 138 Part I offenses reported in Crawfordsville for 2024, against a median of 13.5% across comparable Indiana cities — a gap of 9.0 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 72.9% of reported property offenses in Crawfordsville, against a cohort median of 82.0%. The remainder is burglary (18) and motor vehicle theft (11). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 186.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Crawfordsville ranks 51 of 113 — above 62 of the 112 other Indiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +19.8% 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.
Property counts dominate Crawfordsville'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.
Across 10.2 Census sq mi, Crawfordsville logged 10.5 property and 3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Crawfordsville leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,711.
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Crawfordsville offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.2 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 | 107 | 642.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 78 | 468.1 |
| Burglary | 18 | 108 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 11 | 66 |
| Arson | 1 | 6 |
| Violent Crime | 31 | 186.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 22 | 132 |
| Rape | 7 | 42 |
| Robbery | 2 | 12 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 16,137 | 725 | 1852.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 16,171 | 284.5 | 958.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 16,449 | 316.1 | 1294.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 16,556 | 205.4 | 1135.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 16,662 | 186.1 | 642.2 |
Crawfordsville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Crawfordsville's 138 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Indiana cities closest to Crawfordsville in population. Their populations run from 16,122 to 16,985, against 16,662 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Crawfordsville sits at 186.1/100K violent (grade A); the Indiana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Crawfordsville at 186.1/100K violent and 642.2/100K property - matched below outside Indiana (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
186.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
642.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Crawfordsville reported 31 violent crimes and 107 property crimes, for a total of 138 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Crawfordsville's violent crime rate decreased by 9.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 43.4%.
The most common crime type in Crawfordsville is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.5% of all reported crimes (78 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Crawfordsville 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Crawfordsville's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Crawfordsville, 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. Crawfordsville is scored in the mid-size municipal band (16,662 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.