Evansville Theft
Evansville · Theft · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Evansville police open data recorded 2,362 theft incidents, 19.9% of all 11,840 incidents reported in the city that year and down 20.5% from 2024. That is about 2,047 per 100,000 residents, compared with 1,637 per 100,000 across the 60 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 1,972 theft incidents have been published.
Theft in Evansville by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 1,972 | — | — |
| 2025 | 2,362 | 2,047 | down 20.5% |
| 2024 | 2,970 | 2,574 | up 2.5% |
| 2023 | 2,898 | 2,511 | up 21.6% |
| 2022 | 2,383 | 2,065 | down 6.6% |
| 2021 | 2,551 | 2,211 | — |
| 2020 (partial year) | 964 | — | — |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 24,077 theft incidents.
Questions
How many theft incidents were reported in Evansville in 2025?
2,362, according to Evansville Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is theft going up or down in Evansville?
Reported theft was down 20.5% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 0.9% compared with 2022 (roughly flat over three years).
Where does this data come from?
Source: Evansville Police Department open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.
Other crime types in Evansville
- Evansville other 4,340 in 2025
- Evansville assault 2,084 in 2025
- Evansville vandalism 1,863 in 2025
- Evansville fraud 584 in 2025
- Evansville burglary 284 in 2025
- Evansville auto theft 190 in 2025
- Evansville theft from vehicle 73 in 2025
- Evansville robbery 59 in 2025
- Evansville homicide 1 in 2025