Crime in Richmond, Kentucky
Major crime in Richmond is 14% above the U.S. rate per resident: 25% lower for persons crimes and 23% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 3.9% 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 2.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Richmond 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 Richmond
The middle half of Richmond residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 56 and 131; the typical (median) resident's is 87. The citywide figure (114) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5022.4%
- 50–10044.3%
- 100–20020.5%
- 200–40010.0%
- 400+2.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekdays, day and night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 3.9% 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.
Richmond against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
243 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Richmond; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Richmond 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, Berea (11 mi), is 63% below Richmond's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Richmond
What are the most common crimes in Richmond?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 271 a year), other larceny (about 265 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 81 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.6 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. Richmond's figures add up its 24 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Richmond has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 66.4% 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: 42,126. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Richmond, Kentucky." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ky/richmond
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Berea11 mi42
- Nicholasville18 mi87
- Winchester18 mi128
- Lancaster18 mi46
- Irvine19 mi33
- Wilmore21 mi33
- Lexington-Fayette22 mi142
- Stanton25 mi42