Mount Vernon, IN has a B safety grade (60/100) with a violent crime rate of 333 per 100,000, 6% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Mount Vernon is a small municipal reporter (6,315 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with IN and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Mount Vernon, IN carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 6% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mount Vernon, IN shows violent crime at 332.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 807.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 6% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Mount Vernon reported 21 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 6,315. 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.
2021–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 203.4 per 100,000 in 2021 to 332.5 in 2024 (+63.5%). The highest observed value was 332.5 in 2024 and the lowest 203.4 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mount Vernon's 332.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lebanon (332.7), Cumberland (334.8), Walkerton (334.9), Jeffersonville (322.4). 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 332.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mount Vernon ranks 21 of 113 — above 92 of the 112 other Indiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +114.2% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 29.2% of the 72 Part I offenses reported in Mount Vernon for 2024, against a median of 13.5% across comparable Indiana cities — a gap of 15.7 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 72.5% of reported property offenses in Mount Vernon, against a cohort median of 82.0%. The remainder is burglary (9) and motor vehicle theft (5). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Mount Vernon'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.
Based on 21 reported violent incidents in a population of 6,315. 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 2.9 Census sq mi, Mount Vernon logged 17.7 property and 7.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mount Vernon leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,482.
Violent offenses are 29% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Mount Vernon offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.9 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 | 51 | 807.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 37 | 585.9 |
| Burglary | 9 | 142.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5 | 79.2 |
| Arson | 1 | 15.8 |
| Violent Crime | 21 | 332.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 18 | 285 |
| Robbery | 2 | 31.7 |
| Rape | 1 | 15.8 |
| 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 · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2021-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Insufficient reporting | 6,471 | - | - |
| 2021 | Comparable | 6,391 | 203.4 | 1658.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 6,380 | 266.5 | 1724.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 6,337 | 252.5 | 1436 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 6,315 | 332.5 | 807.6 |
Mount Vernon Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mount Vernon's 72 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 Mount Vernon in population. Their populations run from 5,737 to 6,845, against 6,315 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Mount Vernon sits at 332.5/100K violent (grade B); the Indiana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Mount Vernon reported 21 violent crimes and 51 property crimes, for a total of 72 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Mount Vernon's violent crime rate increased by 31.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 43.8%.
The most common crime type in Mount Vernon is larceny-theft, accounting for 51.4% of all reported crimes (37 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mount Vernon, IN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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