Huntingburg, IN has a B safety grade (70/100) with a violent crime rate of 276 per 100,000, 22% below the national average.

FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city

Huntingburg, IN Crime Rate & Safety

Huntingburg is a small municipal reporter (6,527 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with IN and U.S. context.

Data updated 2026-08-24

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B
Safety grade
306.4
Property / 100K
275.8
Violent / 100K
7K
Population

Huntingburg, IN carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 22% below the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Huntingburg, IN shows violent crime at 275.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 306.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 22% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.

  • B safety grade
  • 275.8/100K violent
  • 306.4/100K property
  • -22% vs U.S.

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Huntingburg, IN

Offense mix

Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix

Violent offenses are 47.4% of the 38 Part I offenses reported in Huntingburg for 2024, against a median of 13.5% across comparable Indiana cities — a gap of 33.9 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.

Small-count caution

The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable

Huntingburg reported 18 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 6,527. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.

Comparable rate records

Huntingburg's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Indiana cohort

The nearest comparable 2024 records to Huntingburg's 275.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Beech Grove (279.0), Bristol (280.1), McCordsville (270.3), Washington (268.3). 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

Huntingburg sits mid-pack among comparable Indiana cities

At 275.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Huntingburg ranks 31 of 113 — above 82 of the 112 other Indiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +77.6% 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 60.0% of reported property offenses in Huntingburg, against a cohort median of 82.0%. The remainder is burglary (4) and motor vehicle theft (4). 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 372.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 275.8 in 2024 (-25.9%). The highest observed value was 372.0 in 2020 and the lowest 139.3 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

Huntingburg's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.

Based on 18 reported violent incidents in a population of 6,527. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.

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.

Huntingburg's 2024 municipal footprint

Across 5.1 Census sq mi, Huntingburg logged 4 property and 3.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.

Huntingburg leans on aggravated assault at 42% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,026.

Violent offenses are 47% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.

Huntingburg offense mix (2024)

Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.

Property rate moved most (2023→2024)

Property Crime Rate
-19.9%
382.5 → 306.4/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+0.1%
275.4 → 275.8/100K

Huntingburg's 2024 offense mix (violent and property)

Offense Count Rate /100K
Property Crime 20 306.4
Larceny-Theft 12 183.9
Burglary 4 61.3
Motor Vehicle Theft 4 61.3
Arson 1 15.3
Violent Crime 18 275.8
Aggravated Assault 16 245.1
Rape 2 30.6
Murder 0 0
Robbery 0 0

Huntingburg Crime Trend (2020-2024)

Huntingburg violent crime rate trend

Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR

Violent crime rate (2024)
275.8/100K 0.1% vs 2023
100200300400 20202021202220232024 276

Huntingburg property crime rate trend

Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR

Property crime rate (2024)
306.4/100K 19.9% vs 2023
200300400500600 20202021202220232024 306
Year Coverage Population Violent Rate Property Rate
2020 Comparable 6,182 372 550
2021 Comparable 6,321 142.4 379.7
2022 Comparable 6,459 139.3 418
2023 Comparable 6,536 275.4 382.5
2024 Comparable 6,527 275.8 306.4

How Huntingburg sits among IN peers

POP-SMALLCOHORT-SIZEVIOL-LOWPROP-LOWQUAD-LLGRADE-BNIBRSUCR-2024
Huntingburg vs. similar-size IN cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 9 cities; the anchor is ringed. Huntingburg vs. similar-size IN cities, violent vs. property crime 30 436 Violent crime per 100K → 46 2,531 Property crime per 100K → Huntingburg SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages

Huntingburg Police Department

Reporting agency for Huntingburg NIBRS-participating

Huntingburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Huntingburg's 38 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 Huntingburg in population. Their populations run from 5,737 to 6,845, against 6,527 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.

Huntingburg's closest IN violent-rate matches

Huntingburg sits at 275.8/100K violent (grade B); the Indiana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.

More about Huntingburg's 2024 record

How many crimes were reported in Huntingburg?

In 2024, Huntingburg reported 18 violent crimes and 20 property crimes, for a total of 38 reported offenses.

Is crime increasing or decreasing in Huntingburg?

From 2023 to 2024, Huntingburg's violent crime rate increased by 0.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 19.9%.

What is the most common crime in Huntingburg?

The most common crime type in Huntingburg is aggravated assault, accounting for 42.1% of all reported crimes (16 incidents in 2024).

Small-city read: Huntingburg 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.

Federal sources for this small-city row
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Huntingburg, 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. Huntingburg is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (6,527 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.