Crime in Columbus, Indiana
Major crime in Columbus is 63% below the U.S. rate per resident: 87% lower for persons crimes and 58% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.4% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 30% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Columbus for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Columbus
The middle half of Columbus residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 14 and 45; the typical (median) resident's is 24. The citywide figure (37) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5083.1%
- 50–1008.8%
- 100–2008.1%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 9.4% in a year; across Indiana it fell 9.8%
Change in expected crimes, with Indiana as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Columbus against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
514 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Columbus; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Columbus has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Edinburgh (10 mi), is 10% below Columbus's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Columbus
What are the most common crimes in Columbus?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 140 a year), shoplifting (about 78 a year) and burglary (about 36 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 30% above the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Columbus's figures add up its 32 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Columbus has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 3.1% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 52,014. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Columbus, Indiana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/in/columbus
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Edinburgh10 mi33
- Seymour18 mi52
- North Vernon21 mi64
- Franklin21 mi38
- Shelbyville22 mi65
- Greensburg24 mi64
- Whiteland25 mi29
- Greenwood29 mi84