Crime in Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky
Major crime in Lexington-Fayette is 42% above the U.S. rate per resident: 27% lower for persons crimes and 1.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 3.2% 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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Intimidation stands out most, at 2.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Lexington-Fayette 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 Lexington-Fayette
The middle half of Lexington-Fayette residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 46 and 166; the typical (median) resident's is 89. The citywide figure (142) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5029.8%
- 50–10025.5%
- 100–20027.8%
- 200–40012.2%
- 400+4.7%
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 3.2% 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.
Lexington-Fayette against U.S. places with 250,000 to 500,000 residents
27 of the 53 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lexington-Fayette; the middle of the group is 142. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Lexington-Fayette has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Nicholasville (10 mi), is 39% below Lexington-Fayette's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Lexington-Fayette
What are the most common crimes in Lexington-Fayette?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 2,955 a year), shoplifting (about 1,633 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 1,288 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 2.2 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. Lexington-Fayette's figures add up its 213 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Lexington-Fayette's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 50.9% 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: 333,865. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ky/lexington-fayette
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Nicholasville10 mi87
- Versailles13 mi89
- Georgetown14 mi68
- Wilmore14 mi33
- Winchester16 mi128
- Paris18 mi64
- Richmond22 mi114
- Frankfort23 mi98