Louisville Metro, KY has a F safety grade (1/100) with a violent crime rate of 707 per 100,000, 101% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
Louisville Metro, KY Crime Rate & Safety
At 676,843 residents, Louisville Metro is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against KY and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Louisville Metro, KY carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 101% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Louisville Metro, KY shows violent crime at 707.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,326.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 101% 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.
F safety grade
707.4/100K violent
3326.2/100K property
+101% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Louisville Metro, KY
Position in the state cohort
Louisville Metro reported the highest violent-crime rate among comparable Kentucky cities
At 707.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Louisville Metro ranks 1 of 231 — above 230 of the 230 other Kentucky cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +965.4% against the cohort median of 66.4. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Share of the state cohort
Louisville Metro carries a large share of the reporting cohort’s total offenses
The 27,301 Part I offenses reported here are 45.3% of the 60,305 reported across all 231 comparable Kentucky cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 676,843 rather than as a uniform shift.
Comparable rate records
Louisville Metro's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Kentucky cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Louisville Metro's 707.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hopkinsville (446.3), Owensboro (349.4), Newport (328.4), Henderson (318.8). 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 17.5% of the 27,301 Part I offenses reported in Louisville Metro for 2024, against a median of 8.0% across comparable Kentucky cities — a gap of 9.5 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 944.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 707.4 in 2024 (-25.1%). The highest observed value was 985.8 in 2021 and the lowest 696.2 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 62.7% of reported property offenses in Louisville Metro, against a cohort median of 72.3%. The remainder is burglary (3,084) and motor vehicle theft (5,306). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Louisville Metro'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 very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Louisville Metro's 2024 municipal footprint
Louisville Metro leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,363.
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-9.6%
782.1 → 707.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
-9.1%
3658.4 → 3326.2/100K
Property offenses lead Louisville Metro's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs KY
vs US avg
Property Crime
22,513
3326.2
1397.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
14,123
2086.6
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
5,306
783.9
-
-
Burglary
3,084
455.6
-
-
Arson
148
21.9
-
-
Violent Crime
4,788
707.4
225.5
352
Aggravated Assault
3,565
526.7
-
-
Robbery
868
128.2
-
-
Rape
208
30.7
-
-
Murder
147
21.7
-
-
Louisville Metro Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Louisville Metro property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Louisville Metro Police Department
Reporting agency for Louisville Metro NIBRS-participating
Louisville Metro Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Louisville Metro's 27,301 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 Kentucky
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Kentucky cities closest to Louisville Metro in population. Their populations run from 33,208 to 323,254, against 676,843 here. Or use our
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Louisville Metro at 707.4/100K violent and 3,326.2/100K property - matched below outside Kentucky (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Louisville Metro?
In 2024, Louisville Metro reported 4,788 violent crimes and 22,513 property crimes, for a total of 27,301 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Louisville Metro?
From 2023 to 2024, Louisville Metro's violent crime rate decreased by 9.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9.1%.
What is the most common crime in Louisville Metro?
The most common crime type in Louisville Metro is larceny-theft, accounting for 51.7% of all reported crimes (14,123 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Louisville Metro'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 (very large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Louisville Metro, KY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.