Crime in Rensselaer, Indiana
Major crime in Rensselaer is 74% below the U.S. rate per resident: 60% lower for persons crimes and 77% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.2% 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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No crime type in Rensselaer is more than 10% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Rensselaer for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
How crime varies across Rensselaer
The middle half of Rensselaer residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 18 and 27; the typical (median) resident's is 25.
- 0–5087.6%
- 50–10012.4%
- 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.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.2% 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.
Rensselaer against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
2,004 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Rensselaer; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Rensselaer 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, De Motte (19 mi), is 30% below Rensselaer's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Rensselaer
What are the most common crimes in Rensselaer?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 7 a year), aggravated assault (about 5 a year) and shoplifting (about 3 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 9% 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. Rensselaer's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Rensselaer 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: 5,122. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Rensselaer, Indiana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/in/rensselaer
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- De Motte19 mi18
- Fowler23 mi24
- Monticello24 mi23
- Momence, IL31 mi38
- Watseka, IL32 mi78
- Cedar Lake34 mi18
- Crown Point35 mi25
- West Lafayette36 mi97