Crime in Jeffersontown, Kentucky
Major crime in Jeffersontown is 35% above the U.S. rate per resident: 68% lower for persons crimes and 1.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 1.5% 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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Other larceny stands out most, at 1.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Jeffersontown 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 Jeffersontown
The middle half of Jeffersontown residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 59 and 139; the typical (median) resident's is 89. The citywide figure (135) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5017.5%
- 50–10037.5%
- 100–20028.5%
- 200–40011.9%
- 400+4.6%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Lowest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 1.5% in a year; across Kentucky it fell 5.9%
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.
Jeffersontown against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
168 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Jeffersontown; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Jeffersontown has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Middletown (4 mi), is 19% above Jeffersontown's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Jeffersontown
What are the most common crimes in Jeffersontown?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 257 a year), shoplifting (about 137 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 121 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 1.8 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. Jeffersontown's figures add up its 22 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Jeffersontown's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 32.9% 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: 28,725. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Jeffersontown, Kentucky." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ky/jeffersontown
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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