Crime in Louisville/Jefferson County, Kentucky
Major crime in Louisville/Jefferson County is 1.9 times the U.S. rate per resident: 35% higher for persons crimes and 2.0 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 5.0% 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 stands out most, at 2.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Louisville/Jefferson County 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/Jefferson County
The middle half of Louisville/Jefferson County residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 86 and 213; the typical (median) resident's is 140. The citywide figure (190) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–504.5%
- 50–10026.5%
- 100–20041.2%
- 200–40019.6%
- 400+8.2%
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 5.0% 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/Jefferson County against U.S. places with 250,000 to 500,000 residents
15 of the 53 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Louisville/Jefferson County; the middle of the group is 142. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Louisville/Jefferson County has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Louisville (5 mi), is 1.8 times Louisville/Jefferson County's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Louisville/Jefferson County
What are the most common crimes in Louisville/Jefferson County?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 3,668 a year), theft from vehicle (about 2,724 a year) and shoplifting (about 2,532 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 2.5 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/Jefferson County's figures add up its 274 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Louisville/Jefferson County has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 79.4% 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: 410,198. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Louisville/Jefferson County, Kentucky." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ky/louisville-jefferson-county
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Louisville5 mi342
- Jeffersontown5 mi135
- St. Matthews5 mi239
- Hillview7 mi71
- Lyndon8 mi129
- Shively8 mi165
- Middletown9 mi160
- Jeffersonville, IN10 mi57