New Palestine, IN has a A safety grade (76/100) with a violent crime rate of 234 per 100,000, 33% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
New Palestine is a small municipal reporter (3,840 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with IN and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
New Palestine, IN carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 33% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, New Palestine, IN shows violent crime at 234.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 78.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 33% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 75.0% of the 12 Part I offenses reported in New Palestine for 2024, against a median of 13.5% across comparable Indiana cities — a gap of 61.5 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 114.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 234.4 in 2024 (+104.3%). The highest observed value was 234.4 in 2024 and the lowest 73.6 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
New Palestine reported 9 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,840. 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 33.3% of reported property offenses in New Palestine, against a cohort median of 82.0%. The remainder is burglary (2) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to New Palestine's 234.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Portage (235.1), Mishawaka (236.3), Linton (230.2), Clarksville (239.0). 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 234.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, New Palestine ranks 41 of 113 — above 72 of the 112 other Indiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +50.9% 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.
Violent counts are the sharper signal on New Palestine's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 9 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,840. 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 Census sq mi, New Palestine logged 1.5 property and 4.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
New Palestine's 2024 book concentrates in aggravated assault (58% of 12 offenses; mix index 4,028).
Violent offenses are 75% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
New Palestine offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 9 | 234.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 7 | 182.3 |
| Rape | 2 | 52.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 3 | 78.1 |
| Burglary | 2 | 52.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1 | 26 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,615 | 114.7 | 344.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,718 | 73.6 | 257.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,976 | 100.8 | 235.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 3,523 | 170.3 | 340.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,840 | 234.4 | 78.1 |
New Palestine Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind New Palestine's 12 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 New Palestine in population. Their populations run from 2,650 to 4,485, against 3,840 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, New Palestine reported 9 violent crimes and 3 property crimes, for a total of 12 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, New Palestine's violent crime rate increased by 37.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 77.1%.
The most common crime type in New Palestine is aggravated assault, accounting for 58.3% of all reported crimes (7 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: New Palestine 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 New Palestine's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 New Palestine, IN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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