Crime in Elkhart, Indiana
Major crime in Elkhart is 34% above the U.S. rate per resident: 2.5 times for persons crimes and 9% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 2.6% 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 and aggravated assault stand out most, at about 3.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Elkhart 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 Elkhart
The middle half of Elkhart residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 66 and 131; the typical (median) resident's is 93. The citywide figure (134) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–503.7%
- 50–10050.8%
- 100–20030.2%
- 200–40011.7%
- 400+3.5%
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 2.6% 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.
Elkhart against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
122 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Elkhart; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Elkhart has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Simonton Lake (4 mi), is 43% below Elkhart's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Elkhart
What are the most common crimes in Elkhart?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 453 a year), aggravated assault (about 359 a year) and burglary (about 154 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 3.0 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. Elkhart's figures add up its 48 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Elkhart has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 19.7% 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: 53,355. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Elkhart, Indiana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/in/elkhart
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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