Crime in East Chicago, Indiana
Major crime in East Chicago is about the U.S. rate per resident: 1.9 times for persons crimes and 17% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.9% 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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Murder stands out most, at 3.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in East Chicago 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 East Chicago
The middle half of East Chicago residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 67 and 111; the typical (median) resident's is 86. The citywide figure (101) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–506.2%
- 50–10051.8%
- 100–20040.0%
- 200–4002.0%
- 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 Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 9.9% 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.
East Chicago against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
301 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than East Chicago; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
East Chicago has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Hammond (2 mi), is 1.7 times East Chicago's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in East Chicago
What are the most common crimes in East Chicago?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 124 a year), aggravated assault (about 118 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 61 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 3.6 times 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. East Chicago's figures add up its 27 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- East Chicago has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 49.1% 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: 25,434. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in East Chicago, Indiana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/in/east-chicago
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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- Whiting3 mi100
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- Munster6 mi52
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