Photo: NathanL07 · CC BY-SA 4.0Cynthiana is about average among U.S. towns for recorded crime
Weighing it all, Cynthiana earns B− for safety (#72 of 115 graded towns in Kentucky), with close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported over 2023 to 2025. Police counts work out at 1.4 violent crimes and 13.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the rest of Kentucky they are 3.2 and 21.8. Violent crime is lower than in 56% of U.S. towns; property crime, lower than in only 41%.
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 Cynthiana
Among Kentucky towns, lower
Kentucky’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Cynthiana’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 37% of the 115 Kentucky towns we grade, against 49% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Cynthiana has 4,096 jobs based in town for 6,576 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.
What’s behind Cynthiana’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Cynthiana’s grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (13.4) 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, by year and by type
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| Year | Cynthiana | Rest of Kentucky | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.2 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.5 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.5 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Cynthiana’s police reported 28 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.4 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 Cynthiana 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 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Cynthiana property | Rest of Kentucky property | Cynthiana violent | Rest of Kentucky violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 9.5 | 19.9 | 0.8 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 16.5 | 24.2 | 1.2 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 12.4 | 21.3 | 1.5 | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 11.5 | 19.9 | 1.5 | 3.1 |
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, 2022–2025, against the rest of Kentucky.
86 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 76 property, as reported to the FBI by Cynthiana’s police.
One person died in crashes on Cynthiana’s roads in 2019–2023
Cynthiana had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is about what is typical for Kentucky towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (8.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Cynthiana’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Cynthiana’s own rate (3.1) 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.
Cynthiana and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cynthiana | B− | 1.4 | 13.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Kentucky towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cynthiana | B− | 1.4 | 13.4 |
| Wilmore | A | 0.2 | 5.5 |
| Highland Heights | B+ | 0.7 | 9.0 |
| Lebanon | B | 1.4 | 10.3 |
| Cold Spring | B− | 0.8 | 16.9 |
| Morehead | C+ | 1.7 | 15.6 |
The five graded Kentucky towns closest to Cynthiana’s population (6,576), 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 Cynthiana. 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 Cynthiana’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (6,612 in 2025); our figure for Cynthiana is 6,576 (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 Cynthiana
Is Cynthiana, KY safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Cynthiana reports more crime per resident than 51% of U.S. towns, a B− Safety Grade and #72 of 115 in Kentucky. Its police reported 1.4 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 Cynthiana?
1.4 violent and 13.4 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 Cynthiana?
Cynthiana’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Cynthiana”. 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.