Photo: Nyttend · Public domainNicholasville records more property crime per head than two in three U.S. towns
Per 1,000 residents a year, 1.4 violent crimes and 15.5 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 3.3 and 21.8 in the rest of Kentucky. All told, Nicholasville grades C+ for safety (#81 of 115 graded towns in Kentucky): close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025.
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 Nicholasville
Among Kentucky towns, lower
Kentucky’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Nicholasville’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 ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Nicholasville’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Nicholasville’s grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (15.5) 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 | Nicholasville | Rest of Kentucky | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.2 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.1 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.9 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Nicholasville’s police reported 143 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.4 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.3 in the rest of Kentucky and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Nicholasville 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 | Nicholasville property | Rest of Kentucky property | Nicholasville violent | Rest of Kentucky violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 17.1 | 19.9 | 1.3 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 16.8 | 24.3 | 1.2 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 15.0 | 21.3 | 1.1 | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 14.9 | 19.9 | 1.9 | 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.
573 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.
66 violent and 507 property, as reported to the FBI by Nicholasville’s police.
15 people died in crashes on Nicholasville’s roads in 2019–2023
Nicholasville had 14 fatal crashes in five years, in which 15 people died; 4 were pedestrians and 2 were cyclists.
That is 9.3 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Kentucky towns of 25,000–100,000 people (7.8, 14 towns).
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.
Nicholasville and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholasville | C+ | 1.4 | 15.5 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Kentucky towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholasville | C+ | 1.4 | 15.5 |
| Independence | A | 0.5 | 3.3 |
| Elizabethtown | B+ | 1.3 | 7.5 |
| Jeffersontown | C | 0.9 | 23.8 |
| Florence | C− | 1.9 | 33.1 |
| Hopkinsville | C− | 3.6 | 25.8 |
The five graded Kentucky towns closest to Nicholasville’s population (33,857), 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 Nicholasville. 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 Nicholasville’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (34,067 in 2025); our figure for Nicholasville is 33,857 (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 Nicholasville
Is Nicholasville, KY safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Nicholasville reports more crime per resident than 56% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #81 of 115 in Kentucky. Its police reported 1.4 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.3 in the rest of Kentucky and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Nicholasville?
1.4 violent and 15.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Kentucky reports 3.3 and 21.8; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Nicholasville in 2025?
Nicholasville’s police reported 1 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 2.9 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Nicholasville?
Nicholasville’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Nicholasville”. 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.