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Safety in Greensburg · FBI data, 2023–2025

Greensburg sees more violent crime per resident than 63% of U.S. towns

Violence and property crime split as 2.3 violent crimes and 12.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 4.3 and 19.1 in the rest of Indiana. Across all the graded crimes, Greensburg lands on C+ (#58 of 91 graded towns in Indiana): close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025.

Violent crime
2.3
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of IN (4.3)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
12.8
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of IN (19.1)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
559
86 violent · 473 property
2023–2025
Trend
→ Steady
2023 to 2025
within ordinary swings

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of IN” is every other Indiana city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.

What stands out · In brief

What stands out about safety in Greensburg

A job center

Greensburg has 9,774 jobs based in town for 12,315 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓

Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Greensburg’s grade

Where Greensburg sits
C+ Violent 2.3C+ Property 12.8
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 42%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Indiana towns we grade (91)Less crime than 36% · #58 of 91
Places of 5,000–25,000 people (3,282)Less crime than 40%
A fairly firm grade. Built on 559 reported crimes over three years. Ordinary swings could put Greensburg anywhere from C+ to B−.
A note on the data.2023 figures come from the FBI's Crime Data Explorer; the FBI's published 2023 table doesn't include this department; the grade uses the figures as published.

How TownRatings grades safety →

Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.3) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns. Its property rate (12.8) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

Greensburg’s police reported 86 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.3 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.3 in the rest of Indiana and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

1,000 neighbors · one year

Crime in Greensburg per 1,000 residents

Property crime (11.1)Violent crime (2.6)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Greensburg2.6
Rest of IN3.5
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Greensburg11.1
Rest of IN15.0
U.S. (FBI)15.5

Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

And about 3 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

Trend

Reported crime is steady

Show as a table
YearGreensburg propertyRest of Indiana propertyGreensburg violentRest of Indiana violent
202313.022.22.44.9
202414.120.31.94.6
202511.115.02.63.5

Crimes per 1,000 residents

Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2023–2025, against the rest of Indiana.

What gets reported

169 crimes reported in 2025

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft116
Burglary9
Vehicle theft12
Aggravated assault28
Robbery0
Rape4
Homicide0
Arson3
32
violent crimes
137
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

32 violent and 137 property, as reported to the FBI by Greensburg’s police.

On the roads

Two people died in crashes on Greensburg’s roads in 2019–2023

Greensburg had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people died; 1 was a pedestrian. Most of these deaths (1 of 2) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.

That is about what is typical for Indiana towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (8.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Greensburg’s size would see about 5 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Greensburg’s own rate (3.3) is context, not a ranking.

2
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
1
pedestrian among them
0
cyclists among them
3.3
per 100,000 a year · Indiana towns of 5,000–25,000: 8.6

Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.

Next door

Greensburg and its neighbors

Washington Township: not gradedClay Township: not gradedWashington TownshipClay TownshipGreensburg
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
GreensburgC+2.312.8
Clay Township———
Washington Township———

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Clay Township and Washington Township have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.

Indiana towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
GreensburgC+2.312.8
LowellA+0.21.6
BargersvilleA0.73.9
DanvilleB+0.97.5
WashingtonB2.25.4
McCordsvilleB2.07.2

The five graded Indiana towns closest to Greensburg’s population (12,315), by grade.

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
  • One number for all of Greensburg. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
  • Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Greensburg’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (12,314 in 2025); our figure for Greensburg is 12,315 (2025 Census estimate).
  • Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.

How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →

Questions about safety in Greensburg

Is Greensburg, IN safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Greensburg reports more crime per resident than 58% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #58 of 91 in Indiana. Its police reported 2.3 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.3 in the rest of Indiana and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

What is the crime rate in Greensburg?

2.3 violent and 12.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Indiana reports 4.3 and 19.1; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.

Who polices Greensburg?

Greensburg’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Greensburg”. Its figures are the ones on this page.

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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.