State crime profile · 2024

Indiana Crime Rates: Safest & Most Dangerous Cities

Crime data for 113 cities and 45 of 92 counties in Indiana (IN), ranked safest to most dangerous from 360 reporting agencies.

Data updated 2026-09-05

308.5
Violent / 100K
1,321
Property / 100K
113
Cities
45
Counties

Indiana violent crime is 308.5 per 100,000, 12% below the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Indiana records 308.5 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, 12% below the national average (about the 25th-safest of 51 states and D.C.). Statewide averages hide city and county variation; UCR participation is voluntary.

  • 308.5 violent crimes per 100K
  • -12% vs. the U.S. average
  • 7,819 Indianapolis violent-crime reports, volume #1 of 37
  • 1,206.2/100K Evansville rate #1 (volume #2)

How safe is Indiana? FBI UCR data snapshot

Indiana (IN) reported 21,360 violent crimes and 91,473 property crimes in 2024, based on FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program submissions from 360 law enforcement agencies. That translates to a statewide violent crime rate of 308.5 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 1321 per 100,000 against a reporting population of 6,924,275. The PlainCrime dataset indexes 113 Indiana cities and 45 counties, each with their own detail pages and local crime figures drawn from FBI UCR Tables 8 and 10.

The FBI's state-level summary reports violent and property crime as aggregate totals rather than broken out by individual offense type (murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson). For an offense-by-offense breakdown, see the individual city and county pages for Indiana below, which draw on FBI UCR Tables 8 and 10 and do report each offense type separately.

Across 11 years of state-level UCR history (2014–2024), the violent crime rate moved from 334.1 to 308.5 per 100,000, a decline of 7.7%. City-level detail pages within Indiana include safety grades (A+ to F), benchmarks against national averages, per-capita risk estimates, and multi-year trend tables for users comparing specific jurisdictions. All figures above are drawn from FBI UCR 2024 submissions; reporting completeness varies by agency, and the FBI periodically restates prior-year figures as late submissions arrive.

How Indiana ranks nationally

Indiana vs. every U.S. state

Violent crime per 100,000 residents, FBI UCR 2024. Lower is safer.

309 Safer than 51% among 51 U.S. states

IN 0 1,100+ every state & DC, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band of values; taller bars hold more U.S. states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · 2024

Safest cities · Most dangerous cities · Crime trends

Crime Trends

Year Population Violent Crime Rate Property Crime Rate
2024 6,924,275 21,360 308.5 91,473 1321
2023 6,862,199 22,343 325.6 99,318 1447.3
2022 6,833,037 20,970 306.9 97,408 1425.5
2021 6,805,985 20,312 298.4 93,102 1367.9
2020 6,754,953 24,125 357.1 105,854 1567.1
2019 6,732,219 20,780 308.7 111,257 1652.6
2018 6,691,878 22,551 337 125,102 1869.5
2017 6,666,818 23,958 359.4 138,539 2078
2016 6,633,053 24,129 363.8 147,932 2230.2
2015 6,619,680 23,145 349.6 152,910 2309.9
2014 6,596,855 22,042 334.1 156,341 2369.9

Cities in Indiana

Safest cities in Indiana

Cities with 25,000+ residents, lowest violent crime per 100,000, FBI UCR 2024. Hover a bar for the exact rate.

/100K

What this shows Columbus is the safest sizeable city in Indiana, at 13.5 violent crimes per 100,000.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024

Highest violent-crime cities in Indiana

Cities with 25,000+ residents, highest violent crime per 100,000, FBI UCR 2024. Hover a bar for the exact rate.

/100K

What this shows Evansville reports the highest big-city violent-crime rate in Indiana, at 1,206.2 per 100,000.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024

Indianapolis recorded 7,819 violent-crime reports (#1 of 37) at 877.9 per 100,000 (rate #4). Evansville recorded 1,383 (#2) at 1,206.2 per 100,000 (#1). These are FBI UCR 2024 agency submissions, not a personal risk forecast.

Volume #1 is not rate #1 among Indiana cities

Violent-crime rate per 100,000 for the count leader and the rate leader among cities with 25,000+ residents, FBI UCR 2024. Each tooltip identifies the relevant rate or volume rank; chart row is not a state rank.

/100K

What this shows Indianapolis recorded 7,819 violent-crime reports (#1 of 37) at 877.9 per 100,000 (rate #4). Evansville recorded 1,383 (#2) at 1,206.2 per 100,000 (#1). These are FBI UCR 2024 agency submissions, not a personal risk forecast.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024
Indiana's largest cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 14 cities; the anchor is ringed. Indiana's largest cities, violent vs. property crime 38 1,303 Violent crime per 100K → 485 3,973 Property crime per 100K → Indianapolis Fort Wayne Evansville Fishers SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME PROPERTY-HEAVY VIOLENT-HEAVY Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are Indiana's statewide averages · the four largest cities are labeled
Read the chart as a list
  • Indianapolis: 878 violent, 3336 property per 100,000 (grade F)
  • Fort Wayne: 308 violent, 2224 property per 100,000 (grade C)
  • Evansville: 1206 violent, 3679 property per 100,000 (grade F)
  • Fishers: 73 violent, 659 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • South Bend: 965 violent, 2044 property per 100,000 (grade F)
  • Carmel: 66 violent, 813 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Bloomington: 287 violent, 2718 property per 100,000 (grade C)
  • Hammond: 741 violent, 3072 property per 100,000 (grade F)
  • Noblesville: 84 violent, 538 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Lafayette: 600 violent, 2043 property per 100,000 (grade F)
  • Greenwood: 109 violent, 1529 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Muncie: 602 violent, 2258 property per 100,000 (grade F)
  • Westfield: 42 violent, 644 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
  • Kokomo: 485 violent, 1417 property per 100,000 (grade D)
C

Indiana safety livability score: 63/100

Percentile-benchmarked against all 51 tracked states, 2024 FBI UCR data.

  • Violent crime rate

    308.5/100K · D (51th percentile)

  • Property crime rate

    1321/100K · B (78th percentile)

  • Murder rate

    N/A, dropped from score, weight redistributed

City Population Violent / 100K Grade
Indianapolis 890,685
877.9
F
Fort Wayne 271,892
307.5
C
Evansville 114,660
1,206.2
F
Fishers 105,680
72.9
A
South Bend 103,415
965
F
Carmel 103,107
66
A
Bloomington 78,762
286.9
C
Hammond 75,677
741.3
F
Noblesville 75,216
83.8
A
Lafayette 71,374
599.7
F
Greenwood 67,086
108.8
A
Muncie 65,072
602.4
F
Westfield 61,845
42
A+
Kokomo 59,995
485
D
Terre Haute 58,536
550.1
F
Anderson 55,355
419.1
D
Elkhart 53,357
995.2
F
Columbus 51,867
13.5
A+
Jeffersonville 51,804
322.4
C
Mishawaka 50,776
236.3
C
Lawrence 49,200
292.7
C
West Lafayette 44,906
93.5
A
Portage 38,700
235.1
B
Plainfield 37,790
246.1
B
New Albany 37,174
266.3
C
Crown Point 35,185
76.7
A
Valparaiso 34,784
66.1
A
Goshen 34,308
221.5
C
Brownsburg 33,343
63
A
Zionsville 33,121
21.1
A+
Michigan City 31,543
291.7
C
Schererville 29,656
124.8
A
Hobart 29,306
150.1
B
Marion 28,057
106.9
A
Franklin 26,089
84.3
A
East Chicago 25,662
826.1
F
Avon 25,147
135.2
B
St. John 24,790
24.2
A+
Munster 23,524
51
A
Highland 23,381
98.4
A
La Porte 22,511
208.8
B
Clarksville 22,174
239
C
Seymour 21,678
46.1
A
Shelbyville 20,773
255.1
B
Logansport 18,197
71.4
A
Lebanon 17,435
332.7
C
New Castle 17,306
75.1
A
Huntington 16,985
47.1
A+
Jasper 16,806
119
A
Cedar Lake 16,748
65.7
A+
Crawfordsville 16,662
186.1
A
Vincennes 16,535
121
B
Frankfort 16,313
110.3
A
Dyer 16,278
12.3
A+
Warsaw 16,195
413.7
C
Griffith 16,122
130.3
A
New Haven 16,098
205
B
Beech Grove 14,335
279
C
Speedway 14,229
161.6
B
Whitestown 14,097
205.7
B
Auburn 14,010
7.1
A+
Bedford 13,872
50.5
A+
Washington 12,674
268.3
B
Greensburg 12,374
194
B
McCordsville 12,208
270.3
B
Danville 11,830
93
A
Yorktown 11,810
50.8
A+
Bargersville 11,568
60.5
A+
Lowell 11,422
26.3
A+
Bluffton 10,519
180.6
A
Kendallville 10,229
205.3
B
Columbia City 10,186
127.6
A
Decatur 10,053
169.1
A
Angola 9,488
105.4
B
Charlestown 8,685
103.6
A
Elwood 8,430
94.9
A
Brazil 8,228
644.1
F
Tell City 7,480
160.4
A
Batesville 7,403
13.5
A+
Nappanee 6,845
204.5
B
Boonville 6,681
404.1
C
Cumberland 6,571
334.8
C
North Vernon 6,553
228.9
B
Huntingburg 6,527
275.8
B
Mount Vernon 6,315
332.5
B
Gas City 6,075
49.4
A+
Pendleton 5,933
33.7
A+
Cicero 5,737
104.6
A
Whiteland 5,699
70.2
A
Tipton 5,230
172.1
A
Linton 5,213
230.2
B
Porter 5,205
19.2
A+
Winona Lake 5,112
78.2
A+
Whiting 4,485
356.7
C
Pittsboro 4,405
113.5
A
Berne 4,242
70.7
A+
Austin 4,195
23.8
A
New Palestine 3,840
234.4
A
Knox 3,578
503.1
C
LaGrange 2,742
72.9
A
Showing the 100 largest of 113 reporting cities. Browse all 113 cities → Or see the safest and most dangerous rankings.

Counties in Indiana

45 of 92 Census county-equivalents (48.9%) appear in FBI Table 10 for this vintage. Missing counties are absent from the FBI source for this year, not dropped by PlainCrime. See national county coverage and methodology.

Largest counties in Indiana, violent crime per 100K

The 6 of the 8 largest counties with complete FBI agency coverage, violent crime per 100,000 residents. Hover a bar for the exact rate.

/100K
Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024

Not charted (Incomplete report): Lake, Hamilton. Their 2024 FBI agency coverage fails this site's completeness screen, so a rate here would read as unusually safe only because agencies did not report.

Adams
Allen
Bartholomew
Brown
Clark
Clay
Clinton
Decatur
DeKalb
Delaware
Elkhart
Floyd
Franklin
Gibson
Grant
Hamilton
Hancock
Harrison
Hendricks
Henry
Howard
Jackson
Jay
Jennings
Johnson
Knox
Kosciusko
Lake
Lawrence
Madison
Monroe
Montgomery
Noble
Perry
Porter
Posey
Shelby
St. Joseph
Steuben
Tippecanoe
Vanderburgh
Vigo
Warrick
Washington
Wells

Nationwide peers for Indiana

Similar violent rate (~308.5/100K)

Similar property rate (~1,321/100K)

Nearby States

Idaho
ID
Illinois
IL
Iowa
IA
Kansas
KS
Kentucky
KY

Safest cities · Most dangerous · Trends · National rankings · Crime grades · Compare · Methodology

Primary source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States annual release. State-level trends cross-check against the FBI Crime Data Explorer (CDE) API.

Population figures for rate calculations reference U.S. Census Bureau estimates where FBI-reported populations are unavailable. Verify with Census.gov QuickFacts.

Read our methodology , how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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