Crime rate & statistics
Indianapolis Crime Rate & Safety Statistics
How Indianapolis stacks up against national benchmarks, expressed in terms you can reason about.
Key indices
Indianapolis crime at a glance
Index values are scaled so that 100 equals the U.S. average.
Your odds
Estimated victimization risk
Calibrated against national benchmark rates and expressed as everyday odds.
Trend
Is crime rising or falling in Indianapolis?
Reported incidents per month over the most recent year of data.
Context
How to read these numbers
Indianapolis carries a property-crime burden that sits noticeably above the typical U.S. city, with vehicle theft and theft from autos doing much of the lifting. Violent crime is more uneven: it is concentrated in a handful of corridors rather than spread evenly, so a citywide average understates how calm many neighborhoods actually are.
We convert Indianapolis crime indices into estimated rates per 100,000 residents using national benchmark rates, then restate them as plain odds — for instance, an annual “1 in N” chance. Indices are scaled so that 100 equals the national average, and letter grades place each area on an A-to-F curve calibrated across cities nationwide so comparisons stay consistent.