County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led

Knox County, IN

Knox County (36,282 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Indiana. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.

Data updated 2026-08-24

69
Property offenses
37
Violent offenses
106
Total · 2024

Knox County, IN reported 102 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Knox County, IN agencies reported 37 violent and 69 property offenses. That equals about 102 violent and 190 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
  • 37 violent offenses
  • 102/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Knox County, IN

Position in the state cohort

Knox County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Indiana counties

At 102.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Knox County ranks 7 of 42 — above 35 of the 41 other Indiana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +155.3% 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 34.9% of the 106 Part I offenses reported in Knox County for 2024, against a median of 19.0% across comparable Indiana counties — a gap of 15.9 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.

Property-offense composition

Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort

Larceny-theft is 53.6% of reported property offenses in Knox County, against a cohort median of 63.9%. The remainder is burglary (20) and motor vehicle theft (12). 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 69
Burglary 20
Larceny-Theft 37
Motor Vehicle Theft 12
Arson 1
Violent Crime 37
Murder 0
Rape 4
Robbery 2
Aggravated Assault 31

Reporting Agency

Knox County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Knox County's crime figures on this page originate from Knox 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

A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Indiana counties closest to Knox County in population. Their populations run from 33,011 to 37,936, against 36,282 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

Nationwide peers for Knox County

Similar violent rate (~102/100K)

Similar property rate (~190/100K)

ZIP Codes in Knox County

State atlas: Indiana · Compare · Rankings

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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