Smiths Grove, KY has a C safety grade (45/100) with a violent crime rate of 248 per 100,000, 30% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Smiths Grove's UCR row covers a small municipal population (808). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to KY and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Smiths Grove, KY is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 30% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Smiths Grove, KY shows violent crime at 247.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,579.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 30% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Smiths Grove reported 2 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 808. 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 247.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Smiths Grove ranks 16 of 231 — above 215 of the 230 other Kentucky cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +272.8% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Smiths Grove's 247.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Morgantown (243.2), Dayton (240.0), Somerset (258.8), Lexington (262.0). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 81.1% of reported property offenses in Smiths Grove, against a cohort median of 72.2%. The remainder is burglary (6) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Smiths Grove'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 2 reported violent incidents in a population of 808. 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 0.8 Census sq mi, Smiths Grove logged 47.4 property and 2.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Smiths Grove's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 39 offenses; mix index 6,187).
Violent offenses are only 5% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Smiths Grove offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.8 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 | 37 | 4579.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 30 | 3712.9 |
| Burglary | 6 | 742.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 123.8 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 2 | 247.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 2 | 247.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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 | 807 | 0 | 2354.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 827 | 120.9 | 2539.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 779 | 0 | 2695.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 791 | 126.4 | 2528.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 808 | 247.5 | 4579.2 |
Smiths Grove Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Smiths Grove's 39 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 Smiths Grove in population. Their populations run from 761 to 852, against 808 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Smiths Grove sits at 247.5/100K violent (grade C); the Kentucky cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Smiths Grove reported 2 violent crimes and 37 property crimes, for a total of 39 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Smiths Grove's violent crime rate increased by 95.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 81.1%.
The most common crime type in Smiths Grove is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.9% of all reported crimes (30 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Smiths Grove'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 Smiths Grove's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Smiths Grove, KY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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