County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Vanderburgh County, IN
At 180,136 residents, Vanderburgh County is a large county in Indiana. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Vanderburgh County, IN reported 113 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Vanderburgh County, IN agencies reported 204 violent and 451 property offenses. That equals about 113 violent and 250 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
204 violent offenses
113/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Vanderburgh County, IN
Position in the state cohort
Vanderburgh County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Indiana counties
At 113.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Vanderburgh County ranks 5 of 42 — above 37 of the 41 other Indiana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +183.5% 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.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 78.8 per 100,000 in 2021 to 113.2 in 2024 (+43.7%). The highest observed value was 113.2 in 2024 and the lowest 78.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 31.1% of the 655 Part I offenses reported in Vanderburgh County for 2024, against a median of 19.0% across comparable Indiana counties — a gap of 12.1 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
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 73.4% of reported property offenses in Vanderburgh County, against a cohort median of 62.0%. The remainder is burglary (66) and motor vehicle theft (54). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
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.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
451
Burglary
66
Larceny-Theft
331
Motor Vehicle Theft
54
Arson
3
Violent Crime
204
Murder
1
Rape
19
Robbery
3
Aggravated Assault
181
Reporting Agency
Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Vanderburgh County's crime figures on this page originate from Vanderburgh 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.