Safest 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 fewest 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 lowest reported volume first
Not the same LMPD beats as the most dangerous neighborhoods in louisville list.
- 1Beat 1100/100
- 2Beat OOJ100/100
- 3Beat JTN99/100
- 4Beat LYND99/100
- 5Beat STM99/100
- 6Beat WB99/100
- 7Beat SHV98/100
- 8Beat 45095/100
- 9Beat 51493/100
- 10Beat 52589/100
- 11Beat 71288/100
- 12Beat CAL88/100
- 13Beat 82385/100
- 14Beat 13483/100
- 15Beat 51383/100
- 16Beat 81583/100
- 17Beat 82479/100
- 18Beat 61178/100
- 19Beat 43576/100
- 20Beat 31675/100
- 21Beat 51272/100
- 22Beat 52172/100
- 23Beat 23471/100
- 24Beat 71171/100
- 25Beat 33470/100
- 26Beat 81269/100
- 27Beat 62465/100
- 28Beat 23664/100
- 29Beat 72363/100
- 30Beat 21262/100
- 31Beat 81162/100
- 32Beat 61356/100
- 33Beat 32254/100
- 34Beat 43654/100
- 35Beat 72453/100
- 36Beat 22552/100
- 37Beat 32351/100
- 38Beat 13549/100
- 39Beat 41148/100
- 40Beat 42447/100
Showing the top 40 of 53 LMPD beats.
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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 2024. See the full methodology →