Crime in Gary, Indiana
Major crime in Gary is 2.1 times the U.S. rate per resident: 3.5 times for persons crimes and 1.8 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 16.7% 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 9.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Gary 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 Gary
The middle half of Gary residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 124 and 267; the typical (median) resident's is 184.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10010.6%
- 100–20043.7%
- 200–40037.0%
- 400+8.7%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 16.7% 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.
Gary against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
25 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Gary; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Gary 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, Lake Station (4 mi), is 82% below Gary's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Gary
What are the most common crimes in Gary?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 660 a year), aggravated assault (about 609 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 383 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 9.1 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. Gary's figures add up its 91 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Gary has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 100.0% 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: 66,911. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Gary, Indiana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/in/gary
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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