Crime in South Bend, Indiana
Major crime in South Bend is 27% below the U.S. rate per resident: 23% lower for persons crimes and 28% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 26.7% 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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Every crime type in South Bend is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in South Bend 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 South Bend
The middle half of South Bend residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 39 and 93; the typical (median) resident's is 52. The citywide figure (73) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5045.5%
- 50–10032.8%
- 100–20017.6%
- 200–4003.3%
- 400+0.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 26.7% 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.
South Bend against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
208 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than South Bend; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
South Bend has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Mishawaka (4 mi), is 1.6 times South Bend's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in South Bend
What are the most common crimes in South Bend?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 480 a year), theft from vehicle (about 238 a year) and aggravated assault (about 190 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: about 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. South Bend's figures add up its 109 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- South Bend's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 15.6% 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: 101,828. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in South Bend, Indiana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/in/south-bend
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Mishawaka4 mi114
- Granger7 mi65
- Niles, MI11 mi94
- Buchanan, MI12 mi91
- Elkhart15 mi134
- Simonton Lake16 mi77
- Dunlap17 mi146
- Goshen22 mi112