CrimeMetric

Crime in Knox, Indiana

Major crime in Knox is 28% below the U.S. rate per resident: 1.7 times for persons crimes and 50% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.5% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
73
28% below the U.S. rate
about the Indiana rate
down 6.5% in a year
Persons crimes
173
1.7 times the U.S. rate
2.1 times the Indiana rate
down 3.1% in a year
Property crimes
50
50% below the U.S. rate
31% below the Indiana rate
down 9.0% in a year
Social disorder
189
1.9 times the U.S. rate
2.3 times the Indiana rate
down 7.3% in a year

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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Crime by type

Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 5.2 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Knox for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Knox

Knox is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 78; the middle half of residents live where it is between 50 and 80.

Map of Knox, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5027.5%
  • 50–10072.5%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest in the daytime

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm78
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am67
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm77
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am65
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 6.5% in a year; across Indiana it fell 9.8%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-6.5%IN -9.8%-10.9%IN -11.6%
Persons crimes-3.1%IN -6.2%-1.4%IN -1.2%
Property crimes-9.0%IN -10.7%-18.2%IN -14.2%
Social disorder-7.3%IN -5.5%-11.4%IN -5.2%

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.

Similar-size places

Knox against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents

660 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Knox; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Knox has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Plymouth (16 mi), is 26% below Knox's rate.

La Porte22 mi73
South Bend32 mi73
Knox73
Plymouth16 mi54
Valparaiso26 mi44
Chesterton31 mi23
Rochester27 mi21
De Motte30 mi18

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Knox

What are the most common crimes in Knox?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 18 a year), other larceny (about 13 a year) and shoplifting (about 4 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 5.2 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. Knox's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Knox has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% 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: 3,665. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Knox, Indiana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/in/knox

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100