New Haven, IN carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 42% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, New Haven, IN shows violent crime at 205 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,087.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 42% 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.
B safety grade
205/100K violent
1087.1/100K property
-42% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for New Haven, IN
Comparable rate records
New Haven's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Indiana cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to New Haven's 205.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Kendallville (205.3), Nappanee (204.5), Whitestown (205.7), La Porte (208.8). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 274.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 205.0 in 2024 (-25.3%). The highest observed value was 274.2 in 2020 and the lowest 195.5 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 69.1% of reported property offenses in New Haven, against a cohort median of 82.0%. The remainder is burglary (37) and motor vehicle theft (17). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
New Haven sits mid-pack among comparable Indiana cities
At 205.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, New Haven ranks 48 of 113 — above 65 of the 112 other Indiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +32.0% 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.
Property counts dominate New Haven'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.
New Haven's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 12.9 Census sq mi, New Haven logged 13.6 property and 2.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
New Haven leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,929.
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (12.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-6.5%
219.3 → 205/100K
Property Crime Rate
-6.7%
1165.3 → 1087.1/100K
Property offenses lead New Haven's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
175
1087.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
121
751.6
-
Burglary
37
229.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
17
105.6
-
Arson
2
12.4
-
Violent Crime
33
205
352
Aggravated Assault
26
161.5
-
Rape
4
24.8
-
Robbery
2
12.4
-
Murder
1
6.2
-
New Haven Crime Trend (2020-2024)
New Haven property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
New Haven Police Department
Reporting agency for New Haven NIBRS-participating
New Haven Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind New Haven's 208 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Indiana cities closest to New Haven in population. Their populations run from 16,122 to 16,806, against 16,098 here. Or use our
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In 2024, New Haven reported 33 violent crimes and 175 property crimes, for a total of 208 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in New Haven?
From 2023 to 2024, New Haven's violent crime rate decreased by 6.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.7%.
What is the most common crime in New Haven?
The most common crime type in New Haven is larceny-theft, accounting for 58.2% of all reported crimes (121 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: New Haven 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 New Haven, IN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.