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Louisville, KY · the CityFunIndex

Safety in Louisville

Louisville ranks #105 of 134 US cities for staying safe, with a safety score of 22 — Quiet. That puts it in the 22nd percentile nationally and #2 of 2 in Kentucky.

safety score
22
Quiet
National rank
#105 of 134
In Kentucky
#2 of 2
Percentile
22nd

The typical city scores 50 for staying safe; Louisville sits 28 points below the median.

How safety is measured

Reported violent and property crime rates.

The safety score is the flip side of our crime measure — 100 minus the raw crime score — so a city with less of it scores higher.

Data sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer and city open-data crime portals.

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around Louisville

  1. T#103 Cincinnati, OH 23
  2. T#103 Greensboro, NC 23
  3. #105 Louisville, KY — this page 22
  4. #106 Burlington, VT 21
  5. T#107 Charlotte, NC 20

See the full leaderboard — The safest cities in America →

Top US cities for staying safe

  1. #1 Jackson, WY 100
  2. #2 Gilbert, AZ 99
  3. T#3 Boise, ID 98
  4. T#3 Santa Clarita, CA 98
  5. #5 Irvine, CA 97

More about Louisville

Louisville scores 55 overall (Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: