County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Noble County, IN
Noble County (47,457 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Indiana. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Noble County, IN reported 32 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Noble County, IN agencies reported 15 violent and 102 property offenses. That equals about 32 violent and 215 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
15 violent offenses
32/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Noble County, IN
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Noble County reported 15 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 47,457. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 42.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 31.6 in 2024 (-25.0%). The highest observed value was 46.4 in 2022 and the lowest 23.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 12.8% of the 117 Part I offenses reported in Noble County for 2024, against a median of 21.3% across comparable Indiana counties — a gap of 8.4 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 48.0% of reported property offenses in Noble County, against a cohort median of 63.9%. The remainder is burglary (34) and motor vehicle theft (19). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
Noble County sits mid-pack among comparable Indiana counties
At 31.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Noble County ranks 25 of 42 — above 17 of the 41 other Indiana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -31.6% against the cohort median of 46.2. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
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
102
Burglary
34
Larceny-Theft
49
Motor Vehicle Theft
19
Arson
2
Violent Crime
15
Murder
0
Rape
5
Robbery
2
Aggravated Assault
8
Reporting Agency
Noble County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Noble County's crime figures on this page originate from Noble 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.