Knox, IN has a C safety grade (45/100) with a violent crime rate of 503 per 100,000, 43% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Knox is a small municipal reporter (3,578 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with IN and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Knox, IN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 43% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Knox, IN shows violent crime at 503.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 531 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 43% above 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 48.6% of the 37 Part I offenses reported in Knox for 2024, against a median of 13.5% across comparable Indiana cities — a gap of 35.2 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
Knox reported 18 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,578. 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 503.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Knox ranks 11 of 113 — above 102 of the 112 other Indiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +224.0% 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 Knox's 503.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Kokomo (485.0), Terre Haute (550.1), Anderson (419.1), Warsaw (413.7). 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 907.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 503.1 in 2024 (-44.5%). The highest observed value was 1130.6 in 2021 and the lowest 332.8 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 57.9% of reported property offenses in Knox, 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.
Knox'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 3,578. 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.
Across 4 Census sq mi, Knox logged 4.8 property and 4.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Knox leans on aggravated assault at 43% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,002.
Violent offenses are 49% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Knox offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4 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 | 19 | 531 |
| Larceny-Theft | 11 | 307.4 |
| Burglary | 4 | 111.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 111.8 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 18 | 503.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 16 | 447.2 |
| Rape | 1 | 27.9 |
| Robbery | 1 | 27.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 3,528 | 907 | 1303.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 3,538 | 1130.6 | 961 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 3,583 | 334.9 | 725.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 3,606 | 332.8 | 471.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,578 | 503.1 | 531 |
Knox Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Knox's 37 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 Knox in population. Their populations run from 2,650 to 4,485, against 3,578 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Knox sits at 503.1/100K violent (grade C); the Indiana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Knox reported 18 violent crimes and 19 property crimes, for a total of 37 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Knox's violent crime rate increased by 51.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 12.6%.
The most common crime type in Knox is aggravated assault, accounting for 43.2% of all reported crimes (16 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Knox 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 Knox's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Knox, IN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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