The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Maysville, KY
Maysville is a city of 11,400 in Mason County, about 35 miles southeast of Amelia · Updated November 2026
Is Maysville, KY safe?
Yes. Most US neighborhoods have little crime, and Maysville has less than most of them: its overall CrimeGrade™ is A, safer than the neighborhoods where 66% of Americans live. Violent and property crime both grade A here. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Maysville run from A+ to B, so check the map below.
A
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 898 of 1,000Safer than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
66% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Maysville as a whole, and 34% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Maysville scores 898.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Maysville, KY at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Maysville, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Maysville
Simple assault is the exception. Maysville grades A for violent crime, but simple assault grades B+, worse than in the neighborhoods where 62% of Americans live.
The safest and least safe parts of Maysville
Every part of Maysville where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Maysville run from A+ to B; 55% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
100%
A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Maysville, the southeast side has the least crime and the east side the most.
Is crime going up in Maysville?
Reported property crime in Maysville has fallen 23% since 2019. Too few violent crimes are reported here each year for a reliable violent crime trend. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 30 to 23 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
MaysvilleUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Maysville. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Maysville
Property, US
2016
+16%
+15%
2017
+27%
+12%
2018
+8%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+6%
-8%
2021
+8%
-10%
2022
-22%
-6%
2023
-14%
-7%
2024
-23%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Maysville
CrimeGrade™ estimates Maysville has about 42 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 12% more than the US as a whole and 47% more than Kentucky.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Assault is the most common crime in Maysville, about 37% of everything reported, and it also accounts for the largest share of what crime costs here.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when crime happens in Maysville
Maysville has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Maysville, 56% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (56%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (42%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Maysville compares with nearby cities
Maysville has the most crime of its 1 nearest cities.
Two things set Maysville apart: it has 22.5 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 4.4 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft, yet theft runs lower here than that would suggest.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.22.5 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 98% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.4.4 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 96% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 82% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (13 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 65% of US city residents
Show all 6
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.12.4% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 93% of US city residents
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Maysville: F (0 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% of US city residents
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.58% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 84% of US city residents
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Maysville
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Maysville about $884 a year per household, 27% less than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $11 million a year, or $1,006 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$640,000
$56
Rape
$220,000
$19
Robbery
$140,000
$12
Assault
$1.6 million
$141
Burglary
$340,000
$30
Theft
$850,000
$75
Vehicle theft
$230,000
$20
Arson
$26,000
$2
Vandalism
$490,000
$43
Total
$4.5 million
$398
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Maysville means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Maysville is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Maysville, KY average a SchoolGrade of D: 35% of students test proficient, against 35% projected for schools like them. Overall, they don't meet expectations. See schools in Maysville on SchoolGrade
