Crime in Shelbyville, Kentucky
Major crime in Shelbyville is 56% below the U.S. rate per resident: 75% lower for persons crimes and 51% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.7% 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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Intimidation stands out most, at 39% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Shelbyville 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 Shelbyville
The middle half of Shelbyville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 24 and 47; the typical (median) resident's is 41.
- 0–5081.6%
- 50–10015.8%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4002.6%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.7% 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.
Shelbyville against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,620 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Shelbyville; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Shelbyville has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Simpsonville (7 mi), is 1.8 times Shelbyville's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Shelbyville
What are the most common crimes in Shelbyville?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 81 a year), theft from vehicle (about 20 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 17 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 39% above 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. Shelbyville's figures add up its 13 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Shelbyville 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: 20,996. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Shelbyville, Kentucky." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ky/shelbyville
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Simpsonville7 mi80
- Crestwood16 mi50
- La Grange16 mi60
- Middletown16 mi160
- Buckner18 mi32
- Jeffersontown19 mi135
- Frankfort20 mi98
- Lyndon20 mi129