CrimeMetric

Crime in Corbin, Kentucky

Major crime in Corbin is 46% below the U.S. rate per resident: 49% lower for persons crimes and 46% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.3% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
54
46% below the U.S. rate
37% below the Kentucky rate
down 9.3% in a year
Persons crimes
51
49% below the U.S. rate
20% below the Kentucky rate
down 4.7% in a year
Property crimes
55
46% below the U.S. rate
39% below the Kentucky rate
down 10.3% in a year
Social disorder
93
7% below the U.S. rate
6% below the Kentucky rate
down 7.7% 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 2.3 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Corbin 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 Corbin

The middle half of Corbin residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 37 and 77; the typical (median) resident's is 50.

Map of Corbin, 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.
  • 0–5038.8%
  • 50–10054.5%
  • 100–2006.7%
  • 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 weeknights

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm51
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am59
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm50
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am56
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 9.3% in a year; across Kentucky it fell 5.9%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-9.3%KY -5.9%-15.3%KY -12.3%
Persons crimes-4.7%KY -9.7%-1.7%KY -1.4%
Property crimes-10.3%KY -5.3%-18.2%KY -14.0%
Social disorder-7.7%KY -5.8%-11.5%KY -7.2%

Change in expected crimes, with Kentucky 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

Corbin against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

1,265 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Corbin; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

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

Nearby places

Corbin has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, London (12 mi), is 1.7 times Corbin's rate.

London12 mi94
Oneida, TN37 mi76
Somerset30 mi62
Corbin54

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

Questions about crime in Corbin

What are the most common crimes in Corbin?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 25 a year), burglary (about 16 a year) and aggravated assault (about 10 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.3 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. Corbin's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Corbin 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: 7,841. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Corbin, Kentucky." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ky/corbin

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100