Washington, IN has a B safety grade (69/100) with a violent crime rate of 268 per 100,000, 24% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Washington (12,674 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then IN and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Washington, IN carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 24% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Washington, IN shows violent crime at 268.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 473.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 24% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 150.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 268.3 in 2024 (+78.1%). The highest observed value was 268.3 in 2024 and the lowest 57.9 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 36.2% of the 94 Part I offenses reported in Washington for 2024, against a median of 13.5% across comparable Indiana cities — a gap of 22.7 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Washington's 268.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are New Albany (266.3), McCordsville (270.3), Huntingburg (275.8), Beech Grove (279.0). 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 268.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Washington ranks 33 of 113 — above 80 of the 112 other Indiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +72.8% 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 Washington'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.
Across 6.7 Census sq mi, Washington logged 9 property and 5.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Washington leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,857.
Violent offenses are 36% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a mid-size city.
Washington offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.7 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 | 60 | 473.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 51 | 402.4 |
| Burglary | 5 | 39.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 31.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 34 | 268.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 27 | 213 |
| Rape | 6 | 47.3 |
| Murder | 1 | 7.9 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 12,612 | 150.7 | 1141.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 12,722 | 117.9 | 1210.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,090 | 57.9 | 876.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 12,234 | 196.2 | 743.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,674 | 268.3 | 473.4 |
Washington Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Washington's 94 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 Washington in population. Their populations run from 11,422 to 14,010, against 12,674 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Washington sits at 268.3/100K violent (grade B); the Indiana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Washington at 268.3/100K violent and 473.4/100K property - matched below outside Indiana (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
268.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
473.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Washington reported 34 violent crimes and 60 property crimes, for a total of 94 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Washington's violent crime rate increased by 36.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 36.4%.
The most common crime type in Washington is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.3% of all reported crimes (51 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Washington 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Washington's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Washington, IN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Washington is scored in the mid-size municipal band (12,674 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.