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Bowling Green Crime Rate Report (Kentucky)

Bowling Green crime statistics report an overall upward trend in crime based on data from 21 years with violent crime decreasing and property crime increasing. Based on this trend, the crime rate in Bowling Green for 2025 is expected to be higher than in 2019.

The city violent crime rate for Bowling Green in 2019 was lower than the national violent crime rate average by 23.16% and the city property crime rate in Bowling Green was higher than the national property crime rate average by 121.23%.

In 2019 the city violent crime rate in Bowling Green was higher than the violent crime rate in Kentucky by 34.27% and the city property crime rate in Bowling Green was higher than the property crime rate in Kentucky by 146.01%.

Property and Violent Crime
Bowling Green Property Crime vs. State and National Per Capita
Bowling Green Violent Crime vs. State and National Per Capita

Bowling Green Crime Statistics
Summary Report

2019 Crime (Actual Data)*Incidents
Aggravated Assault81
Arson1
Burglary386
Larceny and Theft2,610
Motor Vehicle Theft254
Murder and Manslaughter4
Rape63
Robbery55
Crime Rate (Total Incidents)3,613
Property Crime3,250
Violent Crime203
2025 Crime (Projected Data)*Incidents
Aggravated Assault91
Arson1
Burglary312
Larceny and Theft2,994
Motor Vehicle Theft290
Murder and Manslaughter7
Rape83
Robbery77
Crime Rate (Total Incidents)3,957
Property Crime3,594
Violent Crime259

Property and Violent Crime Totals

Bowling Green Property Crime

Bowling Green Violent Crime

Actual versus Projected Crime Totals

Bowling Green Crime 2019

Bowling Green Crime 2025

City versus State versus National Crime Comparison

Bowling Green Property Crime vs. State and National Comparison

Bowling Green Violent Crime vs. State and National Comparison
* The source of actual data on this Bowling Green, Kentucky crime rate report is the FBI Report of Offenses Known to Law Enforcement for the corresponding year or years. Arson numbers are reported inconsistently. Zero values may indicate the data was not available. The projected crime rate data displayed above was generated from the trends and crime data available from previous years of actual reported data. In this case, the Bowling Green crime report data for 2025 was projected from 21 years of actual data. The last year of actual available crime data, as reported above, was 2019.

The FBI cautions the data users against comparing yearly statistical data solely on the basis of their population coverage. The comparisons made herein are thus, only meaningful upon further examination of all variables that affect crime in each reported city, state or other reported jurisdicition.



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