Photo: Henry the heron at English Wikipedia · Public domainReported crime per resident in Tell City fell 39% from 2023 to 2025
Overall, it grades B− for safety (#49 of 91 graded towns in Indiana). Year on year, 1.8 violent crimes and 10.4 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 4.3 and 19.1 in the rest of Indiana.
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 about safety in Tell City
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Tell City’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Property crime holds Tell City’s grade up; violent crime pulls it down. Its violent rate (1.8) 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.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Tell City property | Rest of Indiana property | Tell City violent | Rest of Indiana violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 19.5 | 23.2 | 2.2 | 4.8 |
| 2023 | 13.9 | 22.2 | 2.6 | 4.9 |
| 2024 | 8.8 | 20.3 | 1.6 | 4.6 |
| 2025 | 8.6 | 15.0 | 1.3 | 3.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Indiana.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Tell City | Rest of Indiana | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.2 | 4.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.6 | 4.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.6 | 4.6 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.3 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Tell City’s police reported 41 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.8 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.3 in the rest of Indiana and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Tell City per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
75 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
10 violent and 65 property, as reported to the FBI by Tell City’s police.
No one died in a crash on Tell City’s roads in 2019–2023
That is fewer than 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 Tell City’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Tell City’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
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.
Tell City and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tell City | B− | 1.8 | 10.4 |
| Troy Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Troy Township has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Indiana towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tell City | B− | 1.8 | 10.4 |
| Nappanee | B+ | 1.6 | 6.2 |
| Huntingburg | B+ | 2.6 | 2.6 |
| North Vernon | C+ | 2.6 | 11.6 |
| Cumberland | C− | 4.0 | 21.6 |
| Brazil | C− | 5.4 | 17.6 |
The five graded Indiana towns closest to Tell City’s population (7,441), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
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 Tell City. 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 Tell City’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (7,518 in 2025); our figure for Tell City is 7,441 (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 Tell City
Is Tell City, IN safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Tell City reports less crime per resident than 52% of U.S. towns, a B− Safety Grade and #49 of 91 in Indiana. Its police reported 1.8 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 Tell City?
1.8 violent and 10.4 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 Tell City?
Tell City’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Tell City”. 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.