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Safest cities in Indiana? Lowest and highest property-crime candidates

Use this hub to compare validated Indiana city candidates by reported selected property-offense rate. It is a cautious city-page index, not a statewide safety ranking or personal-risk score.

Candidate-city rate 15.38 per 1,000 residents across listed cities; not a statewide risk score
Validated cities64Current candidate pages
Candidate population1,988,619Sum of listed city estimates
Selected offenses30,587FBI NIBRS offense records

Highest-rate city candidates

Use the city pages for source notes, trend handling, and offense mix. Small or ambiguous places remain outside automatic publication.

115,907 residents Evansville 37.54 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 58,530 residents Terre Haute 36.20 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 22,069 residents Clarksville 33.94 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 14,409 residents Speedway 25.89 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 50,904 residents Mishawaka 24.63 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 34,566 residents Goshen 24.50 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents

Lowest-rate city candidates

Searchers often ask for the safest cities in a state. This section answers that intent carefully by showing the lowest reported selected property-offense rates among validated city candidates only.

5,753 residents Pendleton 0.52 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 14,585 residents Chesterton 1.37 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 11,431 residents Lowell 2.01 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 16,405 residents Cedar Lake 2.80 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 13,884 residents Bedford 2.88 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 5,101 residents Winona Lake 3.14 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents

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Indiana city candidates

City Population Selected offenses Rate per 1,000 Trend
Evansville 115,907 4,351 37.54 Roughly stable
Terre Haute 58,530 2,119 36.20 Decreasing
Clarksville 22,069 749 33.94 Decreasing
Speedway 14,409 373 25.89 Roughly stable
Mishawaka 50,904 1,254 24.63 Decreasing
Goshen 34,566 847 24.50 Mixed
Angola 9,405 215 22.86 Increasing
Fort Wayne 273,030 6,174 22.61 Roughly stable
South Bend 103,411 2,188 21.16 Mixed
Warsaw 16,142 289 17.90 Decreasing
Boonville 6,682 117 17.51 Increasing
East Chicago 25,737 433 16.82 Decreasing
Avon 24,845 406 16.34 Decreasing
Beech Grove 14,672 233 15.88 Decreasing
La Porte 22,601 345 15.26 Decreasing
Seymour 22,525 341 15.14 Roughly stable
Greenwood 68,334 1,029 15.06 Mixed
Kokomo 60,022 876 14.59 Roughly stable
Greensburg 12,346 178 14.42 Trend pending
Plainfield 38,330 552 14.40 Decreasing
Schererville 29,751 386 12.97 Decreasing
Richmond 35,516 431 12.14 Trend pending
North Vernon 6,596 80 12.13 Decreasing
Logansport 18,364 222 12.09 Decreasing
West Lafayette 46,022 547 11.89 Increasing
New Haven 16,203 184 11.36 Roughly stable
Shelbyville 20,821 216 10.37 Mixed
Frankfort 16,842 174 10.33 Mixed
Munster 23,575 242 10.27 Increasing
Lebanon 17,614 179 10.16 Decreasing
Griffith 16,201 162 10.00 Increasing
Mount Vernon 6,328 57 9.01 Decreasing
Carmel 103,645 882 8.51 Increasing
Whiteland 5,527 47 8.50 Decreasing
Valparaiso 34,942 281 8.04 Decreasing
McCordsville 11,749 94 8.00 Decreasing
Bluffton 10,562 78 7.38 Roughly stable
New Castle 17,379 128 7.37 Trend pending
Plymouth 11,026 81 7.35 Trend pending
Gary 67,559 488 7.22 Decreasing
Fishers 103,978 722 6.94 Roughly stable
Kendallville 10,368 72 6.94 Decreasing
Danville 12,512 85 6.79 Decreasing
Crawfordsville 16,702 110 6.59 Decreasing
Nappanee 6,894 45 6.53 Mixed
Westfield 62,917 407 6.47 Mixed
Brownsburg 33,309 205 6.15 Decreasing
Jasper 17,056 104 6.10 Decreasing
Crown Point 35,052 188 5.36 Increasing
Merrillville 36,973 182 4.92 Roughly stable
Elwood 8,490 40 4.71 Decreasing
Bargersville 11,308 52 4.60 Roughly stable
Auburn 13,966 59 4.22 Decreasing
Huntingburg 6,550 23 3.51 Roughly stable
Dyer 16,271 56 3.44 Decreasing
New Whiteland 5,860 20 3.41 Decreasing
Alexandria 5,193 17 3.27 Trend pending
Batesville 7,372 24 3.26 Increasing
Winona Lake 5,101 16 3.14 Decreasing
Bedford 13,884 40 2.88 Decreasing
Cedar Lake 16,405 46 2.80 Decreasing
Lowell 11,431 23 2.01 Roughly stable
Chesterton 14,585 20 1.37 Decreasing
Pendleton 5,753 3 0.52 Decreasing

Important context

These figures are based on reported selected property offenses and Census population context for validated city candidates. Agency reporting boundaries can differ from municipal boundaries, so the methodology page explains why ambiguous or tiny-denominator rows stay out of automatic publication.

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