Crime in Mishawaka, Indiana
Major crime in Mishawaka is 14% above the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 17% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.0% 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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Simple assault and intimidation stand out most, at about 1.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Mishawaka 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 Mishawaka
The middle half of Mishawaka residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 53 and 133; the typical (median) resident's is 87. The citywide figure (114) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5023.0%
- 50–10041.6%
- 100–20021.6%
- 200–40012.1%
- 400+1.6%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 12.0% 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.
Mishawaka against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
242 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Mishawaka; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Mishawaka 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, South Bend (4 mi), is 36% below Mishawaka's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Mishawaka
What are the most common crimes in Mishawaka?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 224 a year), theft from vehicle (about 180 a year) and shoplifting (about 169 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 1.8 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. Mishawaka's figures add up its 42 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Mishawaka's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 85.2% 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: 48,854. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Mishawaka, Indiana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/in/mishawaka
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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