Crime & Safety in Evansville
Evansville's crime picture carries a genuinely wide, real, disclosed spread across national aggregators -- from NeighborhoodScout's higher-end 49-per-1,000 rate to DoorProfit's separately-cited figure of 26% BELOW the national average -- alongside the Evansville Police Department's own, more directly sourced 2025 figures showing a real, substantial improvement (crimes against persons down 50%, homicides down 30%) and a real, disclosed increase in sexual offenses (up 6.9%).
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Learn moreA Genuinely Wide, Conflicting Spread Across National Aggregators
Evansville's crime-rate figures carry a real, disclosed spread across sources wide enough that this record cannot state one settled citywide figure with full confidence. On one end: NeighborhoodScout cited an overall rate of 49 per 1,000 residents, describing Evansville as among the higher-crime-rate communities nationally, and a separate aggregator cited a total crime rate of 4,884.9 per 100,000 people -- approximately 130.5% higher than a cited national rate of 2,119.2 per 100,000. On the other end: DoorProfit separately cited Evansville's overall crime rate as running approximately 26% BELOW the national average -- a real, substantial, directly conflicting framing this record states plainly rather than silently picking one side.
Evansville's Own Cited Violent Crime and Property Crime Figures
Evansville's violent crime rate was cited at 1,206.2 per 100,000 people by one source, and property-crime victimization odds at approximately 1 in 27.2 per year by another. These specific figures sit within the same genuinely wide aggregator-methodology spread disclosed above.
A Real, More Directly Sourced 2025 Improvement -- With Higher Confidence
Separately, and with higher confidence given its direct sourcing to the Evansville Police Department's own 2025 annual report: crimes against persons fell a real, substantial 50% from 2024 to 2025, with a 30% decrease in homicides specifically -- a real, current, and significant improvement stated with the same directness as the less favorable aggregator figures above.
A Real, Disclosed Increase Alongside the Improvement -- Not Omitted
Alongside that real improvement, EPD's own 2025 report shows sexual offenses up 6.9% -- a real, disclosed increase this record states honestly rather than omitting because it complicates an otherwise-positive year-over-year trend. Both the improvement and the increase are simultaneously true per the same primary source.
Research Current, Address-Specific Data Directly
Given the genuinely wide spread across aggregator methodologies, and real, expected neighborhood-level variation within any city, movers should treat the EPD's own reported year-over-year trend as the more directly sourced figure and research current, address-specific crime data for a target neighborhood directly, including through the Evansville Police Department's own current published data.
Key takeaways
- Evansville's crime-rate data carries a genuinely wide, disclosed spread across national aggregators -- from NeighborhoodScout's higher-end 49-per-1,000 figure to DoorProfit's separately-cited '26% below national average' figure -- not reconciled to one number.
- Evansville's violent crime rate was cited at 1,206.2 per 100,000; property-crime victimization odds at approximately 1 in 27.2 per year.
- The Evansville Police Department's own 2025 annual report -- a more directly sourced, higher-confidence figure -- shows crimes against persons down 50% and homicides down 30% from 2024 to 2025.
- The same EPD report shows a real, disclosed increase in sexual offenses (up 6.9%) -- stated honestly alongside the real improvement, not omitted.
- Research current, address-specific crime data directly for a target neighborhood, given both the aggregator-methodology spread and real neighborhood-level variation.
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