Terre Haute, IN has a F safety grade (15/100) with a violent crime rate of 550 per 100,000, 56% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 58,536 residents, Terre Haute 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
Terre Haute, IN carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 56% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Terre Haute, IN shows violent crime at 550.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,427 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 56% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1387.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 550.1 in 2024 (-60.4%). The highest observed value was 1387.7 in 2020 and the lowest 516.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 550.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Terre Haute ranks 10 of 113 — above 103 of the 112 other Indiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +254.2% 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 Terre Haute's 550.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Knox (503.1), Lafayette (599.7), Muncie (602.4), Kokomo (485.0). 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 68.4% of reported property offenses in Terre Haute, against a cohort median of 82.0%. The remainder is burglary (396) and motor vehicle theft (237). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Terre Haute'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 34.8 Census sq mi, Terre Haute logged 57.7 property and 9.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Terre Haute leans on larceny-theft at 59% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,982.
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Terre Haute offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (34.8 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 | 2,006 | 3427 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,373 | 2345.6 |
| Burglary | 396 | 676.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 237 | 404.9 |
| Arson | 33 | 56.4 |
| Violent Crime | 322 | 550.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 235 | 401.5 |
| Robbery | 53 | 90.5 |
| Rape | 32 | 54.7 |
| Murder | 2 | 3.4 |
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 | 60,604 | 1387.7 | 4828.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 60,372 | 525.1 | 5057 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 58,507 | 581.1 | 4862.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 58,309 | 516.2 | 4345.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 58,536 | 550.1 | 3427 |
Terre Haute Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Terre Haute's 2,328 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 Terre Haute in population. Their populations run from 50,776 to 65,072, against 58,536 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Terre Haute sits at 550.1/100K violent (grade F); the Indiana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Terre Haute at 550.1/100K violent and 3,427/100K property - matched below outside Indiana (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
550.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
3,427/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+6.6% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Terre Haute reported 322 violent crimes and 2,006 property crimes, for a total of 2,328 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Terre Haute's violent crime rate increased by 6.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 21.1%.
The most common crime type in Terre Haute is larceny-theft, accounting for 59.0% of all reported crimes (1,373 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Terre Haute'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 Terre Haute's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Terre Haute, IN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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