Crime Grade · Kentucky

Most Dangerous Cities in Kentucky

41 reporting Kentucky cities ranked from highest violent crime rate down, by FBI violent crime rate per 100,000 residents. Data from the FBI Crime Data Explorer.

State median violent crime rate: 165.9 per 100,000. Cities with population ≥ 10,000. Letter grade is the national decile against all FBI-reporting U.S. cities — same grade everywhere on this site.

Rank	City	Population	Violent / 100k	Grade
1	Louisville Metro	676,843	760.3	C7/10
2	Owensboro	60,774	439.3	B5/10
3	Somerset	12,493	328.2	B4/10
4	Shively	15,904	314.4	B4/10
5	Hopkinsville	30,709	299.6	B4/10
6	Radcliff	22,628	296.1	B4/10
7	Covington	41,781	282.4	B4/10
8	Henderson	27,655	278.4	B4/10
9	Paducah	26,608	274.4	B4/10
10	Newport	13,705	262.7	B4/10
11	Ashland	20,937	238.8	A3/10
12	Richmond	40,736	225.8	A3/10
13	Lexington	330,994	225.1	A3/10
14	Paris	10,183	216.0	A3/10
15	Frankfort	28,610	206.2	A3/10
16	Glasgow	15,482	200.2	A3/10
17	Nicholasville	34,067	193.7	A3/10
18	Florence	34,194	190.1	A3/10
19	Lyndon	11,276	186.2	A3/10
20	Bowling Green	80,821	183.1	A3/10
21	Winchester	19,283	165.9	A2/10
22	Shepherdsville	14,991	160.1	A2/10
23	Georgetown	41,231	152.8	A2/10
24	Franklin	10,605	150.9	A2/10
25	St. Matthews	17,868	145.5	A2/10
26	Madisonville	19,469	143.8	A2/10
27	Campbellsville	11,919	142.6	A2/10
28	Berea	16,656	120.1	A2/10
29	Murray	18,769	111.9	A1/10
30	Elizabethtown	35,407	104.5	A1/10
31	Danville	17,623	79.4	A1/10
32	Erlanger	20,295	69.0	A1/10
33	La Grange	10,663	65.6	A1/10
34	Jeffersontown	29,418	64.6	A1/10
35	Bardstown	14,238	56.2	A1/10
36	Versailles	27,922	50.1	A1/10
37	Shelbyville	18,227	49.4	A1/10
38	Independence	30,559	49.1	A1/10
39	Fort Thomas	16,790	47.6	A1/10
40	Mount Washington	19,052	31.5	A1/10
41	Lawrenceburg	12,306	24.4	A1/10

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About this ranking

Cities are ranked by the FBI's reported violent crime rate per 100,000 residents for the most recent fully-reported year (see individual city pages for the year shown). The list is restricted to cities with population ≥ 10,000 that report to the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer. Refreshed every six months.