Crime in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Major crime in Fort Wayne is about the U.S. rate per resident: 16% lower for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 21.7% 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 3.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Fort Wayne 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 Fort Wayne
The middle half of Fort Wayne residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 42 and 113; the typical (median) resident's is 64. The citywide figure (96) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5031.4%
- 50–10038.2%
- 100–20023.1%
- 200–4004.9%
- 400+2.5%
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 21.7% 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.
Fort Wayne against U.S. places with 250,000 to 500,000 residents
43 of the 53 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Fort Wayne; the middle of the group is 142. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Fort Wayne has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, New Haven (6 mi), is 30% below Fort Wayne's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Fort Wayne
What are the most common crimes in Fort Wayne?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 1,398 a year), shoplifting (about 903 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 840 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder 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. Fort Wayne's figures add up its 200 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Fort Wayne has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 70.6% 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: 283,457. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Fort Wayne, Indiana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/in/fort-wayne
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