Mount Vernon, KY has a A safety grade (84/100) with a violent crime rate of 122 per 100,000, 65% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Mount Vernon's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,457). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to KY and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Mount Vernon, KY is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 65% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mount Vernon, KY shows violent crime at 122.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 407 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 65% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 41.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 122.1 in 2024 (+193.7%). The highest observed value was 634.0 in 2021 and the lowest 41.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Mount Vernon reported 3 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,457. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mount Vernon's 122.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Georgetown (122.4), Hardinsburg (121.5), Middletown (125.0), Owingsville (125.2). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 23.1% of the 13 Part I offenses reported in Mount Vernon for 2024, against a median of 8.0% across comparable Kentucky cities — a gap of 15.1 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 40.0% of reported property offenses in Mount Vernon, against a cohort median of 72.3%. The remainder is burglary (2) and motor vehicle theft (4). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 122.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mount Vernon ranks 73 of 231 — above 158 of the 230 other Kentucky cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +83.9% 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.
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 3 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,457. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 2.8 Census sq mi, Mount Vernon logged 3.6 property and 1.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mount Vernon leans on larceny-theft at 31% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,722.
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Mount Vernon offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.8 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 | 10 | 407 |
| Larceny-Theft | 4 | 162.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 162.8 |
| Burglary | 2 | 81.4 |
| Arson | 1 | 40.7 |
| Violent Crime | 3 | 122.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 122.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,405 | 41.6 | 374.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,366 | 634 | 718.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,409 | 124.5 | 415.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,480 | 121 | 483.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,457 | 122.1 | 407 |
Mount Vernon Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mount Vernon's 13 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 Kentucky cities closest to Mount Vernon in population. Their populations run from 2,294 to 2,563, against 2,457 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Mount Vernon reported 3 violent crimes and 10 property crimes, for a total of 13 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Mount Vernon's violent crime rate increased by 0.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 15.9%.
The most common crime type in Mount Vernon is larceny-theft, accounting for 30.8% of all reported crimes (4 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Mount Vernon's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Mount Vernon's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mount Vernon, KY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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