Crime in Louisville, Kentucky
Major crime in Louisville is 3.4 times the U.S. rate per resident: 3.3 times for persons crimes and 3.5 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.3% 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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Theft from vehicle and motor vehicle theft stand out most, at about 4.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Louisville 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 Louisville
The middle half of Louisville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 186 and 395; the typical (median) resident's is 279. The citywide figure (342) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.5%
- 50–1005.0%
- 100–20025.8%
- 200–40045.5%
- 400+23.2%
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 6.3% 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.
Louisville against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
None of the 268 other places of this size has a higher major-crime index than Louisville; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Louisville 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, Shively (4 mi), is 52% below Louisville's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Louisville
What are the most common crimes in Louisville?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 4,205 a year), theft from vehicle (about 2,909 a year) and aggravated assault (about 1,923 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 4.6 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. Louisville's figures add up its 237 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Louisville has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 93.1% 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: 241,003. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Louisville, Kentucky." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ky/louisville
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Shively4 mi165
- Louisville/Jefferson County5 mi190
- St. Matthews6 mi239
- Jeffersonville, IN7 mi57
- Clarksville, IN7 mi212
- New Albany, IN7 mi119
- Lyndon9 mi129
- Jeffersontown9 mi135