Mishawaka, IN has a C safety grade (54/100) with a violent crime rate of 236 per 100,000, 33% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Mishawaka, IN Crime Rate & Safety
At 50,776 residents, Mishawaka 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.
Mishawaka, IN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 33% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mishawaka, IN shows violent crime at 236.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,570.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 33% below 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.
C safety grade
236.3/100K violent
2570.1/100K property
-33% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Mishawaka, IN
Comparable rate records
Mishawaka's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Indiana cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mishawaka's 236.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Portage (235.1), New Palestine (234.4), Clarksville (239.0), Linton (230.2). 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
Mishawaka sits mid-pack among comparable Indiana cities
At 236.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mishawaka ranks 39 of 113 — above 74 of the 112 other Indiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +52.2% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 195.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 236.3 in 2024 (+20.8%). The highest observed value was 316.7 in 2021 and the lowest 195.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 8.4% of the 1,425 Part I offenses reported in Mishawaka for 2024, against a median of 13.6% across comparable Indiana cities — a gap of 5.1 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 counts dominate Mishawaka'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.
Mishawaka's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 18.1 Census sq mi, Mishawaka logged 72.1 property and 6.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mishawaka's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 1,425 offenses; mix index 5,326).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (18.1 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
+17.3%
2190.8 → 2570.1/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-11.7%
267.5 → 236.3/100K
Property offenses lead Mishawaka's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs IN
Property Crime
1,305
2570.1
1321
Larceny-Theft
1,015
1999
-
Burglary
176
346.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
114
224.5
-
Arson
1
2
-
Violent Crime
120
236.3
308.5
Aggravated Assault
80
157.6
-
Rape
23
45.3
-
Robbery
17
33.5
-
Murder
0
0
-
Mishawaka Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Mishawaka property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Mishawaka Police Department
Reporting agency for Mishawaka NIBRS-participating
Mishawaka Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mishawaka's 1,425 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
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In 2024, Mishawaka reported 120 violent crimes and 1,305 property crimes, for a total of 1,425 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Mishawaka?
From 2023 to 2024, Mishawaka's violent crime rate decreased by 11.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 17.3%.
What is the most common crime in Mishawaka?
The most common crime type in Mishawaka is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.2% of all reported crimes (1,015 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Mishawaka'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mishawaka, IN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.