County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Harrison County, IN
Harrison County (39,654 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Indiana. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Harrison County, IN reported 214 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Harrison County, IN agencies reported 85 violent and 149 property offenses. That equals about 214 violent and 376 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
85 violent offenses
214/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Harrison County, IN
Position in the state cohort
Harrison County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Indiana counties
At 214.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Harrison County ranks 2 of 42 — above 40 of the 41 other Indiana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +436.7% against the cohort median of 39.9. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 36.3% of the 234 Part I offenses reported in Harrison County for 2024, against a median of 19.0% across comparable Indiana counties — a gap of 17.3 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.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 158.9 per 100,000 in 2021 to 214.4 in 2024 (+34.9%). The highest observed value was 214.4 in 2024 and the lowest 156.4 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 81.2% of reported property offenses in Harrison County, against a cohort median of 62.0%. The remainder is burglary (12) and motor vehicle theft (16). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
149
Burglary
12
Larceny-Theft
121
Motor Vehicle Theft
16
Arson
0
Violent Crime
85
Murder
1
Rape
4
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
80
Reporting Agency
Harrison County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Harrison County's crime figures on this page originate from Harrison County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Counties in Indiana
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.