Gary, IN crime rate
In 2025 the Gary Police Department reported 1,392.9 violent crimes and 3,077.5 property crimes per 100,000 residents it covers. The FBI's estimates for Indiana and the US for the same year are beside each number.
Data as of 2025 (FBI), checked October 30, 2026. How we got these numbers
Data notes.
- Arson, 2022: possibly incomplete. 16 reported; 6 of 12 months zero (Jan, Feb, Mar, Jun, Jul, Nov) while other offenses were reported in those months; 2023: 29 reported. The count is shown; its rate is not compared.
How does Gary compare with Indiana and the US?
Arson has no FBI state or US estimate, so its row shows Gary only.
What offenses were reported in Gary, 2025?
| Offense | Reported | Per 100k | Indiana | US | vs 2024 | vs 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | ||||||
| Violent crime | 936 | 1,392.9 | 254.4 | 327.6 | up 3.4% | 2021: not reported |
| Murder | 22 | 32.7 | 3.8 | 4.1 | down 43.6% | 2021: not reported |
| Rape | 59 | 87.8 | 29.8 | 36.1 | down 18.0% | 2021: not reported |
| Robbery | 68 | 101.2 | 24.5 | 49.4 | down 16.0% | 2021: not reported |
| Aggravated assault | 787 | 1,171.2 | 196.3 | 238.0 | up 10.4% | 2021: not reported |
| Property crime | ||||||
| Property crime | 2,068 | 3,077.5 | 1,052.2 | 1,534.8 | down 8.4% | 2021: not reported |
| Burglary | 445 | 662.2 | 130.0 | 193.6 | up 14.7% | 2021: not reported |
| Larceny-theft | 1,087 | 1,617.6 | 779.8 | 1,144.1 | down 17.3% | 2021: not reported |
| Motor vehicle theft | 479 | 712.8 | 142.4 | 197.0 | down 5.9% | 2021: not reported |
| Arson | 57 | 84.8 | Not estimated | Not estimated | up 26.6% | 2021: not reported |
Reported = offenses known to the Gary Police Department and sent to the FBI. Indiana and US are FBI estimates for the same year. Changes compare rates of full years only.
Violent crime rate, 2021 to 2025
2021: not reported. No rate is drawn for that year, and the line breaks there.
Show as a table
| Year | Gary | United States | Indiana |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Not reported | 387.0 | 332.6 |
| 2022 | 736.0 | 388.7 | 311.3 |
| 2023 | 914.6 | 379.5 | 341.8 |
| 2024 | 1,346.6 | 362.9 | 325.8 |
| 2025 | 1,392.9 | 327.6 | 254.4 |
Property crime rate, 2021 to 2025
2021: not reported. No rate is drawn for that year, and the line breaks there.
Show as a table
| Year | Gary | United States | Indiana |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Not reported | 1,832.3 | 1,553.0 |
| 2022 | 2,159.3 | 1,973.8 | 1,520.7 |
| 2023 | 2,920.1 | 1,934.1 | 1,537.8 |
| 2024 | 3,358.3 | 1,761.1 | 1,394.5 |
| 2025 | 3,077.5 | 1,534.8 | 1,052.2 |
Is Gary safe?
We don't rate cities as safe or unsafe. What the FBI's numbers show: in 2025 the violent crime rate the Gary Police Department reported, 1,392.9 per 100,000 residents, was higher than Indiana's 254.4, and higher than the US rate of 327.6 (FBI estimates). It rose 3.4% from 2024.
What these numbers can't tell you:
- How crime differs between neighborhoods (the FBI publishes agency totals only).
- Crimes nobody reported to the police.
- How many offenses involved visitors and commuters, who are not in the population count.
In Gary, 936 violent crimes were reported to the FBI in 2025, or 1,392.9 per 100,000 residents covered by the Gary Police Department. That rate was 5.5 times the Indiana estimate of 254.4 and 4.3 times the US rate of 327.6. Violent crime rose 89.3% from 2022, the first full year shown, and 3.4% in the last year.
Aggravated assault had the largest rise of the violent offenses in both spans, 152.1% since 2022 and 10.4% since 2024, and made up 84% of violent crime. Murder moved the other way: 22 homicides in 2025, a rate of 32.7 per 100,000, down 55.6% from 2022 and 43.6% from 2024, the largest fall in the group. Property crime came to 3,077.5 per 100,000, 2.9 times the state's 1,052.2 and 2.0 times the national 1,534.8.
Property crime was 42.5% higher than in 2022. In the last year it fell 8.4%. Burglary, at 662.2 per 100,000, was 5.1 times the Indiana rate, and motor vehicle theft was 5.0 times.
The 2022 arson count is flagged as possibly incomplete because several months were sent as zero, so the property offenses are not ranked. No 2021 data were reported to the FBI; all 12 months were sent for 2022 through 2025, and the department has used NIBRS since 2022. The Lake County Sheriff's Office reports separately, so its cases are not included.
Written from the numbers on this page. Every figure and every comparison is checked against the stored FBI data before publishing.
Police employees, 2025: 2.53 per 1,000 residents (139 officers, 31 civilians), FBI Crime Data Explorer. Shown as context, not as a measure of crime.
Other Indiana cities
The nearest Indiana cities with a page, in alphabetical order. VC = violent crime per 100,000, 2025.
Sources
- FBI Crime Data Explorer, Gary Police Department (ORI IN0450500), offenses known to law enforcement and police employees, 2021 to 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026. Crime Data Explorer
- FBI Crime Data Explorer, Indiana and United States estimated crime (Summary Reporting System estimates), 2021 to 2025.
- FBI, "UCR Statistics: Their Proper Use" (why we don't rank cities).
Every stored file behind this page (11)
- Gary Police Department (IN0450500): violent crime, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_IN0450500_violent_crime__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Gary Police Department (IN0450500): murder, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_IN0450500_homicide__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Gary Police Department (IN0450500): rape, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_IN0450500_rape__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Gary Police Department (IN0450500): robbery, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_IN0450500_robbery__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Gary Police Department (IN0450500): aggravated assault, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_IN0450500_aggravated_assault__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Gary Police Department (IN0450500): property crime, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_IN0450500_property_crime__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Gary Police Department (IN0450500): burglary, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_IN0450500_burglary__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Gary Police Department (IN0450500): larceny-theft, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_IN0450500_larceny__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Gary Police Department (IN0450500): motor vehicle theft, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_IN0450500_motor_vehicle_theft__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Gary Police Department (IN0450500): arson, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_IN0450500_arson__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Gary Police Department (IN0450500): police employees, 2021 to 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/pe_agency_IN0450500__from-2021-to-2025.json)