Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in Louisville (2024)
Louisville's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these LMPD beats are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The LMPD beats at the top of this list have the most reported incidents relative to other Louisville LMPD beats.
Volume, not a safety rate. LMPD beat resident population is not reliably available for a per-100k rate, so no safety grade is published for any zone (see /crime-rate/methodology §6.6). The geographic unit is the LMPD beat (a policing/analysis boundary, not a resident-population neighborhood). relativeIndex ranks each zone by its VIOLENCE-WEIGHTED reported-incident volume (violent incidents weighted 3x property) against the other Louisville zones — it is NOT population-adjusted and must not be read as a safety rate. Offenses are grouped into three coarse buckets (violent / property / other) via a keyword classifier.
Ranked highest reported volume first
Not the same LMPD beats as the safest neighborhoods in louisville list.
- 1Beat 4230/100
- 2Beat 33110/100
- 3Beat 11118/100
- 4Beat 22322/100
- 5Beat 12327/100
- 6Beat 11230/100
- 7Beat 62532/100
- 8Beat 41235/100
- 9Beat 21137/100
- 10Beat 61239/100
- 11Beat 73642/100
- 12Beat 73543/100
- 13Beat 31546/100
- 14Beat 42447/100
- 15Beat 41148/100
- 16Beat 13549/100
- 17Beat 32351/100
- 18Beat 22552/100
- 19Beat 72453/100
- 20Beat 43654/100
- 21Beat 32254/100
- 22Beat 61356/100
- 23Beat 81162/100
- 24Beat 21262/100
- 25Beat 72363/100
- 26Beat 23664/100
- 27Beat 62465/100
- 28Beat 81269/100
- 29Beat 33470/100
- 30Beat 71171/100
- 31Beat 23471/100
- 32Beat 52172/100
- 33Beat 51272/100
- 34Beat 31675/100
- 35Beat 43576/100
- 36Beat 61178/100
- 37Beat 82479/100
- 38Beat 81583/100
- 39Beat 51383/100
- 40Beat 13483/100
Showing the top 40 of 53 LMPD beats.
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Most dangerous neighborhoods in Louisville — FAQ
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No area has zero risk
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 2024. See the full methodology →