Crime in Plainfield, Indiana
Major crime in Plainfield is 20% below the U.S. rate per resident: 46% lower for persons crimes and 14% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.1% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 43% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Plainfield 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 Plainfield
The middle half of Plainfield residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 17 and 107; the typical (median) resident's is 30. The citywide figure (80) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5053.2%
- 50–10017.2%
- 100–20013.4%
- 200–40016.2%
- 400+0.0%
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 8.1% 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.
Plainfield against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
460 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Plainfield; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Plainfield 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, Avon (4 mi), is 35% below Plainfield's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Plainfield
What are the most common crimes in Plainfield?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 163 a year), other larceny (about 129 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 75 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 43% above 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. Plainfield's figures add up its 20 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Plainfield's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 4.6% 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: 35,741. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Plainfield, Indiana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/in/plainfield
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Avon4 mi52
- Mooresville7 mi31
- Danville8 mi41
- Brownsburg9 mi33
- Speedway9 mi115
- Indianapolis14 mi189
- Beech Grove16 mi66
- Greenwood17 mi84