Hotel Metropolitan · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainIn Calvert City, the kinds of crime the grade counts fell 47% per resident from 2023 to 2025
The overall Safety Grade is C+ (#81 of 115 graded towns in Kentucky), which means close to the middle of U.S. towns, judged on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Behind the grade sit 0.5 violent crime and 19.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 3.2 and 21.7 in the rest of Kentucky. It has less violent crime than 84% of U.S. towns, but less property crime than only 25%.
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 Calvert City
Among Kentucky towns, lower
Kentucky’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Calvert City’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 30% of the 115 Kentucky towns we grade, against 44% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Calvert City has 3,775 jobs based in town for 2,510 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 Calvert City’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Calvert City’s grade up; property crime pulls it down.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Calvert City property | Rest of Kentucky property | Calvert City violent | Rest of Kentucky violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 15.5 | 19.9 | 2.0 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 24.6 | 24.2 | 0.8 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 19.9 | 21.2 | 0.0 | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 12.7 | 19.9 | 0.8 | 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 | Calvert City | Rest of Kentucky | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.8 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.0 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.8 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Calvert City’s police reported 4 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.5 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 Calvert 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.
34 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 32 property, as reported to the FBI by Calvert City’s police.
Three people died in crashes on Calvert City’s roads in 2019–2023
Calvert City had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died; 1 was a pedestrian. Most of these deaths (2 of 3) 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 Kentucky towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (7.3 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Calvert City’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Calvert City’s own rate (23.8) 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.
Calvert City and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calvert City | C+ | 0.5 | 19.1 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Kentucky towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calvert City | C+ | 0.5 | 19.1 |
| Anchorage | A | 0.3 | 5.1 |
| Hardinsburg | A− | 0.5 | 5.5 |
| Morgantown | A− | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| Mount Vernon | A− | 0.9 | 4.7 |
| Louisa | B− | 1.8 | 10.4 |
The five graded Kentucky towns closest to Calvert City’s population (2,510), 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 Calvert 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 Calvert City’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (2,517 in 2025); our figure for Calvert City is 2,510 (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 Calvert City
Is Calvert City, KY safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Calvert City reports more crime per resident than 56% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #81 of 115 in Kentucky. Its police reported 0.5 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 Calvert City?
0.5 violent and 19.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Kentucky reports 3.2 and 21.7; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Calvert City?
Calvert City’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Calvert 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.