Kokomo, IN has a D safety grade (39/100) with a violent crime rate of 485 per 100,000, 38% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 59,995 residents, Kokomo 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.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Kokomo, IN carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 38% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kokomo, IN shows violent crime at 485 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,416.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 38% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 485.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kokomo ranks 12 of 113 — above 101 of the 112 other Indiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +212.4% 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 Kokomo's 485.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Knox (503.1), 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 755.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 485.0 in 2024 (-35.8%). The highest observed value was 755.2 in 2020 and the lowest 485.0 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 25.5% of the 1,141 Part I offenses reported in Kokomo for 2024, against a median of 13.5% across comparable Indiana cities — a gap of 12.0 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 72.5% of reported property offenses in Kokomo, against a cohort median of 82.0%. The remainder is burglary (138) and motor vehicle theft (96). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Kokomo'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.
Across 36.7 Census sq mi, Kokomo logged 23.2 property and 7.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Kokomo leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,555.
Violent offenses are 26% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Kokomo offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (36.7 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 | 850 | 1416.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 616 | 1026.8 |
| Burglary | 138 | 230 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 96 | 160 |
| Arson | 2 | 3.3 |
| Violent Crime | 291 | 485 |
| Aggravated Assault | 231 | 385 |
| Rape | 35 | 58.3 |
| Robbery | 23 | 38.3 |
| Murder | 2 | 3.3 |
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 | 58,001 | 755.2 | 1993.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 58,248 | 628.3 | 1514.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 59,776 | 510.2 | 1550.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 59,720 | 542.5 | 1651 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 59,995 | 485 | 1416.8 |
Kokomo Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Kokomo's 1,141 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 Kokomo in population. Their populations run from 51,804 to 67,086, against 59,995 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Kokomo sits at 485/100K violent (grade D); the Indiana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Kokomo at 485/100K violent and 1,416.8/100K property - matched below outside Indiana (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
485/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,416.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-10.6% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Kokomo reported 291 violent crimes and 850 property crimes, for a total of 1,141 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Kokomo's violent crime rate decreased by 10.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 14.2%.
The most common crime type in Kokomo is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.0% of all reported crimes (616 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Kokomo'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.
Large-city rate methodology for how Kokomo's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Kokomo, IN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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