Crime in Owensboro, Kentucky
Major crime in Owensboro is 1.5 times the U.S. rate per resident: 33% higher for persons crimes and 1.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 2.6% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 2.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Owensboro 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 Owensboro
The middle half of Owensboro residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 61 and 193; the typical (median) resident's is 131. The citywide figure (154) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5014.2%
- 50–10027.6%
- 100–20034.9%
- 200–40016.1%
- 400+7.2%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 2.6% 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.
Owensboro against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
88 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Owensboro; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Owensboro has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Rockport (9 mi), is 69% below Owensboro's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Owensboro
What are the most common crimes in Owensboro?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 593 a year), shoplifting (about 338 a year) and aggravated assault (about 211 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.3 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. Owensboro's figures add up its 47 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Owensboro has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 60.2% 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: 63,834. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Owensboro, Kentucky." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ky/owensboro
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