CrimeMetric

Crime in Wabash, Indiana

Major crime in Wabash is 44% below the U.S. rate per resident: 58% lower for persons crimes and 40% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.0% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
57
44% below the U.S. rate
24% below the Indiana rate
down 8.0% in a year
Persons crimes
42
58% below the U.S. rate
50% below the Indiana rate
down 4.7% in a year
Property crimes
60
40% below the U.S. rate
18% below the Indiana rate
down 8.5% in a year
Social disorder
85
15% below the U.S. rate
about the Indiana rate
down 6.3% 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 1.7 times the U.S. rate

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

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Wabash

The middle half of Wabash residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 36 and 84; the typical (median) resident's is 39. The citywide figure (57) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Wabash, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5062.3%
  • 50–10029.3%
  • 100–2008.5%
  • 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 on weekday daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm61
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am52
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm59
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am50
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.0% in a year; across Indiana it fell 9.8%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.0%IN -9.8%-15.9%IN -11.6%
Persons crimes-4.7%IN -6.2%-4.2%IN -1.2%
Property crimes-8.5%IN -10.7%-17.7%IN -14.2%
Social disorder-6.3%IN -5.5%-10.3%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

Wabash against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,348 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Wabash; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Riverton, WY10,386209
Minden, LA10,364187
Marlton, MD10,35164
Wabash, IN10,36857
Hull, MA10,36242

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

Nearby places

Wabash 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, Peru (13 mi), is about Wabash's rate.

Kokomo28 mi99
Warsaw30 mi98
Marion19 mi75
Wabash57
Peru13 mi56
Logansport28 mi56
Huntington18 mi27
Rochester27 mi21

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

Questions about crime in Wabash

What are the most common crimes in Wabash?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 43 a year), shoplifting (about 22 a year) and aggravated assault (about 10 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 1.7 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. Wabash's figures add up its 13 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Wabash 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: 10,368. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100