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Indiana Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Indiana cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.

Cities ranked
71
Supported Indiana cities with tract-backed crime context.
Leaderboard

Current order from the latest data

Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.

#PlaceMetric
1 Elkhart
Violent Crime has declined 21% since 2021.
9.9 / 1k
2 Evansville
Violent Crime has increased 39% since 2021.
9.9 / 1k
3 South Bend
Violent Crime has increased 134% since 2021.
8.9 / 1k
4 Indianapolis
Violent Crime has increased 13% since 2021.
7.7 / 1k
5 Hammond
Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period.
7.4 / 1k
6 East Chicago
Violent Crime has declined 18% since 2021.
7.4 / 1k
7 Lafayette
Violent Crime has declined 3% since 2022.
6.5 / 1k
8 Terre Haute
Violent Crime has declined 56% since 2021.
5.9 / 1k
9 Muncie
Violent Crime has increased 12% since 2021.
5.7 / 1k
10 Kokomo
Violent Crime has declined 27% since 2021.
4.8 / 1k
11 Anderson
Violent Crime has increased 2% since 2021.
4.1 / 1k
12 Richmond
Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend.
4.0 / 1k
13 Goshen
Violent Crime has increased 33% since 2021.
3.6 / 1k
14 Warsaw
Violent Crime has declined 14% since 2021.
3.6 / 1k
15 Whiting
Violent Crime has increased 57% since 2021.
3.3 / 1k
16 Jeffersonville
Violent Crime has increased 28% since 2021.
3.2 / 1k
17 Bloomington
Violent Crime has declined 42% since 2021.
3.1 / 1k
18 Clarksville
Violent Crime has increased 30% since 2021.
3.0 / 1k
19 Fort Wayne
Violent Crime has increased 7% since 2021.
3.0 / 1k
20 Lebanon
Violent Crime has declined 15% since 2021.
2.9 / 1k
21 Lawrence
Violent Crime has declined 16% since 2021.
2.7 / 1k
22 Michigan City
Violent Crime has declined 54% since 2021.
2.7 / 1k
23 Beech Grove
Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021.
2.6 / 1k
24 Mishawaka
Violent Crime has declined 21% since 2021.
2.6 / 1k
25 New Albany
Violent Crime has declined 40% since 2021.
2.5 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

Research note

What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Indiana cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.

Research note

What this ranking can miss

A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.