Indiana crime - or - Where would you want to live?

[AFA1CY]

OK, first off I am not a statistician. The following is from 2007 FBI information on reported crimes in Indiana. I took this data and broke it down and sorted it into the following. I have ranked the top (most crime) 10 cities vs the bottom 10 (least crime). The “number of crimes reported” represent the raw numbers as reported by the FBI. The percentage of crime is representative of how many crimes were committed per person based on population. (i.e. a population of 100 with 25 crimes would be 25% or .25 crimes per person – 25/100)


Top 10 Cities

City population
Indianapolis 797,268
Fort Wayne 248,423
Evansville 114,985
South Bend 104,437
Gary 97,048
Hammond 77,662
Bloomington 68,918
Fishers 66,099
Muncie 64,921
Carmel 62,037

Violent crime raw data (Number of crimes reported)
Indianapolis 9,841
South Bend 805
Fort Wayne 762
Gary 669
Hammond 645
Evansville 522
Muncie 375
Lafayette 303
Bloomington 275
East Chicago 223

Property crime raw data (Number of crimes reported)
Indianapolis 50,289
Fort Wayne 10,083
South Bend 6,872
Evansville 5,308
Terre Haute 4,927
Gary 4,667
Hammond 3,840
Mishawaka 3,189
Lafayette 3,083
Anderson 2,931

Total crime raw data (Violent + property crimes reported)
Indianapolis 60,130
Fort Wayne 10,845
South Bend 7,677
Evansville 5,830
Gary 5,336
Terre Haute 5,124
Hammond 4,485
Lafayette 3,386
Mishawaka 3,346
Bloomington 3,173

Percent of violent crime per person (Violent crimes / population)
Indianapolis 1.234%
Waterloo 0.912%
Hammond 0.831%
South Bend 0.771%
East Chicago 0.735%
Gary 0.689%
Clarksville 0.653%
Muncie 0.578%
Rensselaer 0.574%
Speedway 0.558%

Percent of property crime per person (Property crimes / population)
Clarksville 9.505%
New Castle 8.893%
Connersville 8.873%
Terre Haute 8.652%
Martinsville 7.929%
Vincennes 7.355%
Scottsburg 7.088%
La Porte 6.903%
New Albany 6.805%
East Chicago 6.784%

Percent of total crime per person (Violent + property crimes / population)
Clarksville 10.157%
Connersville 9.057%
Terre Haute 8.998%
New Castle 8.979%
Martinsville 8.285%
Indianapolis 7.542%
East Chicago2 7.518%
Vincennes 7.512%
Scottsburg 7.456%
South Bend 7.351%

Bottom 10 Cities

City population
Albion 2,356
Waterloo 2,194
Walkerton 2,186
South Whitley 1,865
Hagerstown 1,646
Long Beach 1,544
Culver 1,523
North Liberty 1,351
Burns Harbor 1,060
Clarks Hill 663

Violent crime raw data (Number of crimes reported)
Note: 15 cities profiled because of zero or one crime only
Decatur 1
Nappanee 1
Boonville 1
Sullivan 1
Winona Lake 1
Delphi 1
Bargersville 1
Albion 1
Long Beach 1
Culver 1
Huntingburg 0
Tipton 0
Chesterfield 0
Hagerstown 0
Clarks Hill 0

Property crime raw data (Number of crimes reported)
Georgetown 29
South Whitley 28
Hebron 25
Salem 24
Culver 17
North Liberty 6
Clarks Hill 3
Albion 2
Long Beach 2
Bargersville 1

Total crime raw data (Violent + property crimes reported)
Georgetown 34
South Whitley 32
Salem 32
Hebron 29
Culver 18
North Liberty 10
Clarks Hill 3
Albion 3
Long Beach 3
Bargersville 2

Percent of violent crime per person (Violent crimes / population)
Winona Lake 0.023%
Sullivan 0.022%
Boonville 0.015%
Nappanee 0.014%
Decatur 0.011%
Chesterfield 0.000%
Clarks Hill 0.000%
Hagerstown 0.000%
Huntingburg 0.000%
Tipton 0.000%

Percent of property crime per person (Property crimes / population)
Georgetown 1.017%
Decatur 0.778%
Winona Lake 0.765%
Hebron 0.688%
Clarks Hill 0.452%
North Liberty 0.444%
Salem 0.366%
Long Beach 0.130%
Albion 0.085%
Bargersville 0.038%

Percent of total crime per person (Violent + property crimes / population)
Culver 1.182%
Hebron 0.798%
Decatur 0.789%
Winona Lake 0.788%
North Liberty 0.740%
Salem 0.488%
Clarks Hill 0.452%
Long Beach 0.194%
Albion 0.127%
Bargersville 0.076%


FBI Table Table 8 (Indiana) - Crime in the United States 2007

 

[JBrockman]

WOW Man! I dont see Amity on there anywhere guess our police department is doing a fantastic job!
O' wait a minute we dont have a police department we take care of the problem ourselves and then call the Sheriffs department.
You can have the bigger cities and all those people, I will stay right here in my small community away from the mix of people like you have in Indy and take care of my family!
I like the idea of being able to walk out on my back porch in my birthday suit and not worrying about the neighbors looking me over! For those of you that know me theres a sight for you ain't it!

 

[spasmo]

I'm quite happy living in Noblesville. It does suck that you have to keep your doors and windows locked though. When I was growing up, I lived in Elwood. It was a hopping little town. I think we have over 10,000 people living there but GM was still going strong in Anderson... Well, they were still in Anderson. I remember my dad being on strike a few times during my childhood. But we could leave the doors unlocked when we left the house. The nice thing about the house alarm is that when a door is opened the alarm just beeps once to tell you.

Noblesville is a nice town though.

 

[Jay]

I live about an hour north of Indy. I can step out on my front porch and see both ends of town. We have two cops, one for days, and one for nights. One of the largest private shooting ranges in the state is 20 minutes away, and my private range is 5 minutes away. If you want to come shoot for a day, just let me know.

 

[Bubbajms]

I'm in sorta the same spot as Jay, but Delphi made the map!! I guess in a town this size, somebody's gotta go get drunk every now and then and decide to fight a little..

 

[42769vette]

that was a pretty intresting thead

 

[JBrockman]

My house sits 700 ft. off the road and is surrounded on 3 sides by the woods. I have it set up where I step out on my back porch and it is 40 yards to the target area. The porch is covered so we shoot rain or shine! The woods has served many times as a paintball war zone with as many as 40 people one time, this included a state trooper and a federal agent that are friends of mine and several local police officers.
The garage is 12 feet from the porch and the refrigarator always has liquid refreshment in it thats cold!
The front yard is 4.5 acres approximately and the woods are 12 acres and we have seen deer, rabbits, squirrels, turkeys along with owls, foxes and hawks in them.
I had one nosey pesky neighbor that would call the law everytime we would shoot but a quick trip to the county offices and a file of papers showing my property was not within 500 feet of a platted sub-division shut her up finally!

 

[jeremy]

Well my town didn't make any of the lists. I love living here in Forest, pop 160 people in town 843 in the entire township. Much like The thread above we tend to police ourselves out here then maybe call the sheriff. Up till a couple of years ago we even kept the keys in the cars.

Would not move back into the big towns.

 

[BobM]

I USED to live out here all by myself. Nearest house was my parent's place 1/4 mile away. Now I have neighbors that I can see.
I liked it better when we were all alone!

 

[Turtle]

I grew up about a 15- 20 minit walk from downtown. (GHETT O) And I'm native american and scottish (White guy basically) I was a long haired metal head kid raised in Wanna be thug hell. Life was hard and dangerous exspecailly if you didnt fit in. (I didnt fit in) (and i was fat) Ive seen and experianced enough for a couple lifetimes and im only 28...... but it could have been worse.

I have been to chicago and would say the only thing that makes it worse than indy is there gunlaws. All the bad guys have them. Not enought of the good people do. And the thugs are alot more dangerous because they know most people are unarmed. Im glad I didnt grow up there.