Photo: W.marsh · CC BY-SA 3.0The crimes the grade counts fell 55% per resident in Brandenburg from 2023 to 2025
The yearly rates were 0.7 violent crime and 8.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 3.2 and 21.8 in the rest of Kentucky. On top of that, the overall Safety Grade is B+ (#34 of 115 graded towns in Kentucky), which means less crime per resident than 71% of U.S. towns, judged on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Violent crime here is lower than in 78% of U.S. towns; property crime, lower than in 62%.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of KY” is every other Kentucky 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 Brandenburg
A job center
Brandenburg has 2,609 jobs based in town for 3,003 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
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 Brandenburg’s grade
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 lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Brandenburg property | Rest of Kentucky property | Brandenburg violent | Rest of Kentucky violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 9.8 | 19.9 | 0.3 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 13.2 | 24.2 | 1.0 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 6.1 | 21.2 | 0.3 | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 5.7 | 19.9 | 0.7 | 3.1 |
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 Kentucky.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Brandenburg | Rest of Kentucky | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.0 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.3 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.7 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Brandenburg’s police reported 6 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.2 in the rest of Kentucky and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Brandenburg 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.
19 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.
2 violent and 17 property, as reported to the FBI by Brandenburg’s police.
Four people died in crashes on Brandenburg’s roads in 2019–2023
Brandenburg had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died.
That is more than is typical for Kentucky towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (7.3 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Brandenburg’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Brandenburg’s own rate (27.2) 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.
Brandenburg and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brandenburg | B+ | 0.7 | 8.3 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Kentucky towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brandenburg | B+ | 0.7 | 8.3 |
| Springfield | B+ | 1.5 | 4.3 |
| Flemingsburg | B+ | 0.6 | 8.2 |
| Morganfield | B | 1.3 | 10.0 |
| Barbourville | B | 2.1 | 7.2 |
| Indian Hills | B− | 0.0 | 18.9 |
The five graded Kentucky towns closest to Brandenburg’s population (3,003), 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 Brandenburg. 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 Brandenburg’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (2,992 in 2025); our figure for Brandenburg is 3,003 (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 Brandenburg
Is Brandenburg, KY safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Brandenburg reports less crime per resident than 71% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #34 of 115 in Kentucky. Its police reported 0.7 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.2 in the rest of Kentucky and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Brandenburg?
0.7 violent and 8.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Kentucky reports 3.2 and 21.8; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Brandenburg?
Brandenburg’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Brandenburg”. 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.