Marion, IN has a A safety grade (80/100) with a violent crime rate of 107 per 100,000, 70% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Marion (28,057 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
Marion, IN carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 70% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Marion, IN shows violent crime at 106.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,104.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 70% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Marion's 106.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Angola (105.4), Greenwood (108.8), Cicero (104.6), Charlestown (103.6). 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
At 106.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Marion ranks 68 of 113 — above 45 of the 112 other Indiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -33.6% against the cohort median of 161.0. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 8.8% of the 340 Part I offenses reported in Marion for 2024, against a median of 13.6% across comparable Indiana cities — a gap of 4.7 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.
2021–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 101.9 per 100,000 in 2021 to 106.9 in 2024 (+4.9%). The highest observed value was 195.7 in 2022 and the lowest 101.9 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Marion'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 15.7 Census sq mi, Marion logged 19.7 property and 1.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Marion's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 340 offenses; mix index 5,595).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Marion offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (15.7 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 | 310 | 1104.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 250 | 891 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 31 | 110.5 |
| Burglary | 29 | 103.4 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 30 | 106.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 17 | 60.6 |
| Robbery | 7 | 24.9 |
| Rape | 6 | 21.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2020 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2021-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Insufficient reporting | 27,725 | - | - |
| 2021 | Comparable | 27,468 | 101.9 | 1070.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 28,108 | 195.7 | 2337.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 27,927 | 189.8 | 2266.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 28,057 | 106.9 | 1104.9 |
Marion Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Marion's 340 reported offenses (4-year span 2021-2024).
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 Marion in population. Their populations run from 23,524 to 31,543, against 28,057 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Marion sits at 106.9/100K violent (grade A); the Indiana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Marion at 106.9/100K violent and 1,104.9/100K property - matched below outside Indiana (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
106.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,104.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-43.7% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Marion reported 30 violent crimes and 310 property crimes, for a total of 340 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Marion's violent crime rate decreased by 43.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 51.3%.
The most common crime type in Marion is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.5% of all reported crimes (250 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Marion 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 Marion's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Marion, IN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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