County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
At 83,658 residents, Howard County is a large county in Indiana. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Data updated 2026-08-24
Howard County, IN reported 49 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Howard County, IN agencies reported 41 violent and 100 property offenses. That equals about 49 violent and 120 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 29.1% of the 141 Part I offenses reported in Howard County for 2024, against a median of 19.0% across comparable Indiana counties — a gap of 10.0 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 63.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 49.0 in 2024 (-22.6%). The highest observed value was 71.7 in 2021 and the lowest 40.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 49.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Howard County ranks 20 of 42 — above 22 of the 41 other Indiana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +22.7% 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.
On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 100 |
| Burglary | 23 |
| Larceny-Theft | 65 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 12 |
| Arson | 1 |
| Violent Crime | 41 |
| Murder | 0 |
| Rape | 7 |
| Robbery | 1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 33 |
Howard County's crime figures on this page originate from Howard 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.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Indiana counties closest to Howard County in population. Their populations run from 66,674 to 82,208, against 83,658 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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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.
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