ZIP 46227, Indianapolis, IN Violent Crime Rates and Maps
ZIP 46227 is in Indianapolis, about 7 miles south of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in ZIP 46227?
ZIP 46227 grades C for violent crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 88% of Americans live. Assaults make up 92% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Indianapolis as a whole grades D+ for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 422 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
12% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than ZIP 46227 as a whole, and 88% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. ZIP 46227 scores 422.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in ZIP 46227, Indianapolis, IN at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in ZIP 46227 in Indianapolis, 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 about violent crime in ZIP 46227
Aggravated assaults run high. ZIP 46227 has aggravated assaults at more than double the US rate: 6.6 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.6 nationally.
How ZIP 46227 compares within Indianapolis
Violent crime varies widely across ZIP 46227: 48% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 38% in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across ZIP 46227 run from A to F.
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A or B 48%C 14%D or F 38%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
ZIP 46227 has less violent crime than 18 of the 34 ZIP codes in Indianapolis. It covers much of the University Heights and Rosedale Hills, Carson Heights, and West Edgewood areas.
Violent crime rates and types in ZIP 46227
CrimeGrade™ estimates ZIP 46227 has about 24 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 80% more than the US as a whole and close to Indianapolis as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in ZIP 46227, about 92% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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.
Violent crime in ZIP 46227 and nearby ZIP codes
ZIP 46227 has more violent crime than 7 of its 10 nearest ZIP codes. ZIP 46143 and ZIP 46259 have the least violent crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from ZIP 46227. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with ZIP codes of similar size and density, ZIP 46227 has more violent crime than 89% of them.
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs ZIP 46227 about $164 million a year, or $2,746 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $33 million, or $559 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
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.
