Nicholasville, KY carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 68% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Nicholasville, KY shows violent crime at 112.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,497 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 68% 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.
A safety grade
112.6/100K violent
1497/100K property
-68% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Nicholasville, KY
Comparable rate records
Nicholasville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Kentucky cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Nicholasville's 112.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Danville (109.2), Edmonton (116.7), Scottsville (108.3), Russell Springs (106.5). 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 221.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 112.6 in 2024 (-49.1%). The highest observed value was 221.2 in 2020 and the lowest 112.6 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Nicholasville sits mid-pack among comparable Kentucky cities
At 112.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Nicholasville ranks 76 of 231 — above 155 of the 230 other Kentucky cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +69.6% 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 81.3% of reported property offenses in Nicholasville, against a cohort median of 72.2%. The remainder is burglary (68) and motor vehicle theft (24). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Nicholasville'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.
Nicholasville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 15.2 Census sq mi, Nicholasville logged 32.3 property and 2.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Nicholasville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (76% of 529 offenses; mix index 5,927).
Violent offenses are only 7% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (15.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-11.1%
126.6 → 112.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-12.3%
1707.9 → 1497/100K
Property offenses lead Nicholasville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
492
1497
1711
Larceny-Theft
400
1217.1
-
Burglary
68
206.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
24
73
-
Arson
3
9.1
-
Violent Crime
37
112.6
352
Aggravated Assault
24
73
-
Rape
6
18.3
-
Robbery
6
18.3
-
Murder
1
3
-
Nicholasville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Nicholasville 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
Nicholasville Police Department
Reporting agency for Nicholasville NIBRS-participating
Nicholasville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Nicholasville's 529 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 Kentucky
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Kentucky cities closest to Nicholasville in population. Their populations run from 27,727 to 38,072, against 32,866 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Nicholasville reported 37 violent crimes and 492 property crimes, for a total of 529 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Nicholasville?
From 2023 to 2024, Nicholasville's violent crime rate decreased by 11.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 12.3%.
What is the most common crime in Nicholasville?
The most common crime type in Nicholasville is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.6% of all reported crimes (400 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Nicholasville 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 Nicholasville, KY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.