Decision-support ranking comparing Kentucky 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.
Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.
| # | Place | Metric | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hopkinsville Violent Crime has increased 13% since 2021. |
4.5 / 1k | → |
| 2 | Owensboro Violent Crime has increased 39% since 2021. |
3.9 / 1k | → |
| 3 | Newport Violent Crime has increased 20% since 2021. |
3.6 / 1k | → |
| 4 | Paducah Violent Crime has declined 5% since 2021. |
3.5 / 1k | → |
| 5 | Covington Violent Crime has declined 8% since 2021. |
3.3 / 1k | → |
| 6 | Oak Grove Violent Crime has declined 27% since 2021. |
3.3 / 1k | → |
| 7 | Lexington Violent Crime has declined 6% since 2021. |
3.0 / 1k | → |
| 8 | Bowling Green Violent Crime has declined 28% since 2021. |
2.8 / 1k | → |
| 9 | Frankfort Violent Crime has declined 10% since 2021. |
2.7 / 1k | → |
| 10 | Dayton Violent Crime has increased 37% since 2021. |
2.6 / 1k | → |
| 11 | Florence Violent Crime has increased 4% since 2021. |
2.5 / 1k | → |
| 12 | Mount Sterling Violent Crime has increased 108% since 2021. |
2.5 / 1k | → |
| 13 | Richmond Violent Crime has increased 25% since 2021. |
2.5 / 1k | → |
| 14 | Radcliff Violent Crime has declined 20% since 2021. |
2.4 / 1k | → |
| 15 | Bardstown Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021. |
2.2 / 1k | → |
| 16 | Winchester Violent Crime has increased 43% since 2021. |
2.0 / 1k | → |
| 17 | Georgetown Violent Crime has declined 21% since 2021. |
1.9 / 1k | → |
| 18 | Shepherdsville Violent Crime has declined 22% since 2021. |
1.8 / 1k | → |
| 19 | Morehead Violent Crime has declined 19% since 2021. |
1.7 / 1k | → |
| 20 | Elizabethtown Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021. |
1.6 / 1k | → |
| 21 | Danville Violent Crime has increased 25% since 2021. |
1.5 / 1k | → |
| 22 | Nicholasville Violent Crime has declined 21% since 2021. |
1.5 / 1k | → |
| 23 | Paris Violent Crime has declined 32% since 2021. |
1.5 / 1k | → |
| 24 | Russellville Violent Crime has declined 61% since 2021. |
1.5 / 1k | → |
| 25 | Shelbyville Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021. |
1.3 / 1k | → |
This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Kentucky 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.
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.