Evansville Crime Map
Indiana · Latest 24h · updated 2026-11-12
| Latest 24h | 21 incidents, 5 violent (2026-11-11) |
|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | 9,714 incidents through October |
| 2025 (full year) | 11,840 incidents |
| Full archive | 155,150 incidents (2006–2026) |
| Per 100K / year | 10,260 |
Source: Evansville Police Department open data.
About crime in Evansville
Latest mapped day. Evansville recorded 21 incidents on 2026-11-11, including 5 violent-category incidents. This is a short-window snapshot of police open data, not a personal-safety score.
Year-over-year context
Evansville recorded 13,506 incidents in 2024 and 11,840 in 2025, a 12.3% decrease. Year-to-year comparisons depend on consistent source coverage and reporting definitions.
Latest 24h (2026-11-11) category breakdown
| Other | 7 |
| Assault | 5 |
| Theft | 5 |
| Vandalism | 3 |
| Fraud | 1 |
Across 2006–2026, the current archive contains 155,150 incidents for Evansville. Missing categories or periods reflect what the source publishes; missing is not zero.
Evansville crime overview
Essay updated 2026-11-12 · figures above are from the latest data
TL;DR. Evansville recorded 11,840 police-reported incidents in calendar year 2025, down 12.3% from 13,506 in 2024. Other was the most common category with 4,340 incidents, 36.7% of the total, followed by Theft with 2,362 and Assault with 2,084. Violent-category incidents totaled 2,144, or 18.1%. Data are current through November 2026, with January–October 2026 down 2.8% from the same months in 2025.
About this data
TheCrimeMaps plots police-reported crime in Evansville, Indiana, using open data published by the Evansville Police Department. The map places each reported incident at its reported location, covering theft, assault, vandalism, fraud, burglary and grouped Other offenses. Data are current through November 2026, with the main view focused on calendar year 2025. Readers can filter by category and time to see how reports are distributed across the city.
In 2025, Evansville recorded 11,840 police-reported incidents. That equals 10,260.4 reported incidents per 100,000 residents in 2025, calculated with the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 population estimate of 115,395 for the city. The violent grouping of assault, sexual assault, robbery, shooting and homicide totaled 2,144 incidents, or 18.1 percent of the year total, equal to 1,858 reported violent incidents per 100,000 residents.
Recent trend
Reported incidents declined 12.3 percent between the two consecutive complete years, falling from 13,506 in 2024 to 11,840 in 2025. That 2025 total was also below the earlier complete-year totals of 13,822 in 2021, 13,193 in 2022 and 13,891 in 2023. On a same-period basis, January–October 2026 recorded 9,714 incidents, down 2.8 percent from 9,994 in January–October 2025, indicating a continued decline rather than a rebound after 2025. The archive shows 2023 as the highest complete year in the 2021 to 2025 sequence.
Category breakdown
Other was the largest grouping in 2025 with 4,340 incidents, or 36.7 percent of the total. Within Other, Other crime accounted for 2,564 incidents, followed by Threats with 621, Impaired & dangerous driving with 615, Harassment with 337, Weapons offenses with 189 and Drugs with 14. Theft ranked second at 2,362 incidents, or 19.9 percent, while Assault ranked third at 2,084 incidents, or 17.6 percent. Vandalism added 1,863 incidents, or 15.7 percent, with smaller shares for Fraud at 584 incidents, or 4.9 percent, and Burglary at 284 incidents, or 2.4 percent. The 2025 distribution shows property and person-related reports alongside the broad Other grouping.
What this means
Evansville’s 2025 picture centers on 11,840 incidents, the lowest among the recent complete years compared with 13,822 in 2021, 13,193 in 2022, 13,891 in 2023 and 13,506 in 2024. Other at 4,340 incidents, or 36.7 percent, shapes the total more than any single crime type. Theft at 2,362 incidents, or 19.9 percent, and Assault at 2,084 incidents, or 17.6 percent, follow, while Vandalism at 1,863 incidents, or 15.7 percent, keeps property-related reports prominent and Fraud and Burglary remain much smaller.
FAQ
How many incidents were reported in Evansville in 2025?
Evansville recorded 11,840 police-reported incidents in calendar year 2025. That equals 10,260.4 reported incidents per 100,000 residents in 2025, based on the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 population estimate of 115,395 for the city. The rate describes police-reported incidents, not personal risk. Violent-category incidents totaled 2,144, or 18.1% of the 2025 total.
What was the most common crime category in Evansville in 2025?
Other was the leading category in 2025 with 4,340 incidents, or 36.7% of the total. The source groups several types under Other, including other crime with 2,564 incidents, threats with 621, impaired and dangerous driving with 615, harassment with 337, weapons offenses with 189, and drugs with 14. Theft was next with 2,362 incidents.
Did reported crime go up or down in Evansville between 2024 and 2025?
Reported totals declined between the two complete years. Evansville went from 13,506 police-reported incidents in 2024 to 11,840 in 2025, a decrease of 12.3%. Both years include 12 months of data. Assault accounted for 2,084 incidents in 2025, while theft accounted for 2,362 incidents that year.
Which Evansville neighborhoods had the most reported incidents in 2025?
This 2025 summary for Evansville does not provide a ranked list of named neighborhoods, so comparisons are available at the city level. The city recorded 11,840 police-reported incidents in calendar year 2025, including 2,084 assaults and 1,863 cases of vandalism. TheCrimeMaps presents the city total without attributing incidents to specific neighborhoods in this release.
Where does the Evansville crime data come from?
The Evansville figures on TheCrimeMaps come from the Evansville Police Department. That source underlies the 2025 count of 11,840 police-reported incidents, including 584 fraud reports and 284 burglaries. The all-years archive for 2006 through 2026 holds 155,150 incidents, plus 3 undated incidents, and should be cited only as an all-years figure.
How current is the Evansville data on TheCrimeMaps?
The dataset is current through November 2026. The latest complete year is 2025 with 11,840 incidents. For the current window, January–October 2026 recorded 9,714 incidents, compared with 9,994 in the same months of 2025, a decrease of 2.8% on a same-months basis.
Explore Evansville
By category
- Evansville Assault (13,703)
- Evansville Robbery (2,868)
- Evansville Homicide (90)
- Evansville Burglary (16,993)
- Evansville Auto theft (7,416)
- Evansville Theft from vehicle (5,305)
- Evansville Theft (24,077)
- Evansville Vandalism (47,261)
- Evansville Fraud (3,602)
- Evansville Other (33,835)
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Neighborhoods
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