Crime Rate in Indiana (2025)
The FBI-based Crime Index for 20 cities in Indiana, plus the statewide average. Scores run 0–100 (higher = safer) and are built from FBI Crime Data Explorer reports for 2025.
Crime Index
Crime trend in Indiana
Reported crime by offense
Statewide rates per 100,000 residents vs the US average.
Each bar is scaled to the US average for that offense — the dashed line marks 1×. Bars past it run above the national norm; hover a row for detail.
Violent crime
- Indiana
- 4.3 /100k · 302 total
- US average
- 4.1 /100k
- Indiana
- 29.6 /100k · 2,064 total
- US average
- 35.2 /100k
- Indiana
- 27.9 /100k · 1,944 total
- US average
- 47.9 /100k
- Indiana
- 201 /100k · 14,031 total
- US average
- 228 /100k
Property crime
- Indiana
- 137 /100k · 9,533 total
- US average
- 187 /100k
- Indiana
- 795 /100k · 55,448 total
- US average
- 1,099 /100k
- Indiana
- 154 /100k · 10,762 total
- US average
- 192 /100k
- Indiana
- 7.5 /100k · 520 total
- US average
- 9.4 /100k
How Indiana compares
Indiana against the US average for 2025.
| Metric | Indiana | United States |
|---|---|---|
| Crime Index (higher = safer) | 78B | 73C |
| Violent crime /100k | 263 | 315 |
| Property crime /100k | 1,094 | 1,487 |
| Homicide /100k | 4.3 | 4.1 |
| Total reported /100k | 1,357 | 1,802 |
Grade shown per index band (88–100 = A … 0–29 = F). Rates are reported offenses per 100,000 residents.
Reported crime rate since 2021
Reported crime rate since 2022
All 20 cities in Indiana
Ranked safest to most dangerous by Crime Index.
- 1JeffersonvilleA411per 100k1.9homicide
- 2CarmelA736per 100k0.0homicide
- 3FishersA543per 100k0.9homicide
- 4NoblesvilleA513per 100k0.0homicide
- 5WestfieldA502per 100k0.0homicide
- 6ColumbusB1,301per 100k0.0homicide
- 7ElkhartB660per 100k3.7homicide
- 8GreenwoodB1,841per 100k7.2homicide
- 9Fort WayneC2,141per 100k11.6homicide
- 10BloomingtonC2,230per 100k2.5homicide
- 11South BendC1,490per 100k0.0homicide
- 12LafayetteC2,062per 100k2.8homicide
- 13KokomoC1,739per 100k3.3homicide
- 14MishawakaC2,907per 100k3.9homicide
- 15AndersonC2,415per 100k0.0homicide
- 16MuncieC1,952per 100k4.6homicide
- 17HammondD3,071per 100k17.2homicide
- 18Terre HauteD3,676per 100k5.1homicide
- 19EvansvilleF4,168per 100k7.0homicide
- 20GaryF4,468per 100k32.7homicide
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A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2025. See the full methodology →