CrimeMetric

Crime in Mayfield, Kentucky

Major crime in Mayfield is about the U.S. rate per resident: 37% lower for persons crimes and 12% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.3% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
103
about the U.S. rate
21% above the Kentucky rate
down 8.3% in a year
Persons crimes
63
37% below the U.S. rate
about the Kentucky rate
down 5.4% in a year
Property crimes
112
12% above the U.S. rate
24% above the Kentucky rate
down 8.7% in a year
Social disorder
144
44% above the U.S. rate
44% above the Kentucky rate
down 6.7% 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 2.7 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Mayfield 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 Mayfield

The middle half of Mayfield residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 45 and 117; the typical (median) resident's is 84. The citywide figure (103) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Mayfield, 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.
  • 0–5039.2%
  • 50–10026.2%
  • 100–20025.8%
  • 200–4008.8%
  • 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 weekday daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm123
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am78
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm117
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am87
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.3% in a year; across Kentucky it fell 5.9%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.3%KY -5.9%-17.7%KY -12.3%
Persons crimes-5.4%KY -9.7%-3.9%KY -1.4%
Property crimes-8.7%KY -5.3%-19.4%KY -14.0%
Social disorder-6.7%KY -5.8%-11.0%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

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

532 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Mayfield; 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

Mayfield 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, Benton (18 mi), is 32% below Mayfield's rate.

Fulton20 mi203
Paducah23 mi121
Mayfield103
Benton18 mi70
Murray20 mi68
Hendron21 mi59
Farley21 mi53

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

Questions about crime in Mayfield

What are the most common crimes in Mayfield?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 62 a year), other larceny (about 50 a year) and burglary (about 30 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.7 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. Mayfield's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Mayfield 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: 9,869. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100