Muncie, IN has a F safety grade (20/100) with a violent crime rate of 602 per 100,000, 71% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 65,072 residents, Muncie 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.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Muncie, IN carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 71% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Muncie, IN shows violent crime at 602.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,257.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 71% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 602.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Muncie ranks 8 of 113 — above 105 of the 112 other Indiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +287.9% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Muncie's 602.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lafayette (599.7), Brazil (644.1), Terre Haute (550.1), Knox (503.1). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 953.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 602.4 in 2024 (-36.8%). The highest observed value was 953.4 in 2020 and the lowest 445.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 63.9% of reported property offenses in Muncie, against a cohort median of 82.0%. The remainder is burglary (282) and motor vehicle theft (249). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 21.1% of the 1,861 Part I offenses reported in Muncie for 2024, against a median of 13.5% across comparable Indiana cities — a gap of 7.6 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 Muncie'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.
Across 27.4 Census sq mi, Muncie logged 53.6 property and 14.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Muncie leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,237.
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Muncie offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (27.4 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 | 1,469 | 2257.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 938 | 1441.5 |
| Burglary | 282 | 433.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 249 | 382.7 |
| Arson | 2 | 3.1 |
| Violent Crime | 392 | 602.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 310 | 476.4 |
| Rape | 56 | 86.1 |
| Robbery | 23 | 35.3 |
| Murder | 3 | 4.6 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 67,760 | 953.4 | 2421.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 67,262 | 446 | 2539.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 65,343 | 486.7 | 2765.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 65,065 | 445.7 | 2857.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 65,072 | 602.4 | 2257.5 |
Muncie Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Muncie's 1,861 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 Indiana cities closest to Muncie in population. Their populations run from 55,355 to 75,677, against 65,072 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Muncie sits at 602.4/100K violent (grade F); the Indiana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Muncie at 602.4/100K violent and 2,257.5/100K property - matched below outside Indiana (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
602.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,257.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+35.2% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Muncie reported 392 violent crimes and 1,469 property crimes, for a total of 1,861 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Muncie's violent crime rate increased by 35.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 21%.
The most common crime type in Muncie is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.4% of all reported crimes (938 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Muncie'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.
Large-city rate methodology for how Muncie's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Muncie, IN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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