Crime in Paducah, Kentucky
Major crime in Paducah is 21% above the U.S. rate per resident: 13% lower for persons crimes and 29% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 2.9% 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 4.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Paducah 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 Paducah
The middle half of Paducah residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 60 and 130; the typical (median) resident's is 111.
- 0–5015.8%
- 50–10027.6%
- 100–20048.0%
- 200–4004.9%
- 400+3.7%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Lowest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 2.9% 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.
Paducah against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
214 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Paducah; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Paducah 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, Hendron (3 mi), is 51% below Paducah's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Paducah
What are the most common crimes in Paducah?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 228 a year), shoplifting (about 120 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 48 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 4.5 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. Paducah's figures add up its 25 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Paducah has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 13.3% 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: 25,747. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Paducah, Kentucky." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ky/paducah
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Hendron3 mi59
- Farley4 mi53
- Metropolis, IL8 mi78
- Calvert City15 mi60
- Benton21 mi70
- Mayfield23 mi103
- Marion35 mi50
- Murray36 mi68