Government / Crime & public safety
Paducah crime,
in context.
What Paducah police reported, what changed, and what the numbers can—and cannot—tell us.
The annual picture
Reported Part I offenses
Published offenses · 2025
845All eight published categories
Reported offenses—not arrests or convictions.
Change · 2024 → 2025
−18
18 fewer (2.1% lower).
The overall total hides different changes by category.
Largest category · 2025
618
Larceny
Read the change,
not just the total.
From 2024 to 2025, burglary fell by 19 reported offenses and auto theft by 10. Larceny rose by 10 and aggravated assault by 9. These changes describe the published counts; they do not explain why they changed.
Compare the categories
Behind the total
Both years use the same scale. Counts are shown beside every bar; small categories can be hard to see at this scale.
Larceny
608 in 2024 → 618 in 2025
10 more (1.6% higher).
Larceny is the source’s theft category. Auto theft is listed separately; these annual totals contain no incident-level breakdown.
The exact counts
Change is 2025 minus 2024. The overview year does not change this comparison.
| Offense category | 2024 | 2025 | Change | Change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murder | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Rape | 23 | 20 | −3 | −13% |
| Robbery | 11 | 8 | −3 | −27.3% |
| Aggravated assault | 54 | 63 | +9 | +16.7% |
| Burglary | 67 | 48 | −19 | −28.4% |
| Larceny | 608 | 618 | +10 | +1.6% |
| Auto theft | 90 | 80 | −10 | −11.1% |
| Arson | 8 | 6 | −2 | −25% |
| Published total | 863 | 845 | −18 | −2.1% |
Keep the source visible
The historical record
Our saved transcription covers 2014–2025. In 7 years, the category sum differs from the published total. We show both figures below without correcting either one. Earlier years are excluded from the comparison above pending source and definition review—even where the arithmetic matches.
| Year | Published total | Category sum | Difference | Review status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 845 | 845 | 0 | Included in comparison |
| 2024 | 863 | 863 | 0 | Included in comparison |
| 2023 | 933 | 937 | +4 | Difference unresolved |
| 2022 | 951 | 958 | +7 | Difference unresolved |
| 2021 | 961 | 959 | −2 | Difference unresolved |
| 2020 | 1,050 | 1,048 | −2 | Difference unresolved |
| 2019 | 1,345 | 1,343 | −2 | Difference unresolved |
| 2018 | 1,308 | 1,330 | +22 | Difference unresolved |
| 2017 | 1,411 | 1,411 | 0 | Arithmetic matches; review pending |
| 2016 | 1,294 | 1,294 | 0 | Arithmetic matches; review pending |
| 2015 | 1,548 | 1,548 | 0 | Arithmetic matches; review pending |
| 2014 | 1,386 | 1,375 | −11 | Difference unresolved |
Sources & scope
What this page can tell you
Annual reported offenses
Source: City of Paducah crime-statistics table ↗. Snapshot retrieved October 20, 2026; manually transcribed from the official table. These are annual published figures, not a live incident feed.
The eight categories retain the source’s “Part I” labels. The 2024 and 2025 category sums match their published totals. Arithmetic agreement does not verify reporting completeness or make these figures an independently audited crime census.
Category definitions & reading notes
Murder
The source labels this category “Murder.” These are reported offenses, not court findings or convictions.
Rape
The source labels this category “Rape.” Reported offenses do not capture all sexual violence, including incidents not reported to police.
Robbery
Robbery involves taking property through force or threat. The source lists it separately from burglary and larceny.
Aggravated assault
The published category is aggravated assault, not all assaults. These annual totals do not contain incident circumstances.
Burglary
Burglary generally involves unlawful entry to commit an offense. It is a separate category from robbery.
Larceny
Larceny is the source’s theft category. Auto theft is listed separately; these annual totals contain no incident-level breakdown.
Auto theft
The source labels this category “Auto theft.” These are offenses, not a verified count of unique vehicles or people.
Arson
Arson is listed separately in the source table and included in this page’s eight-category total.
Know the boundaries
- Offenses are not people. These figures are not counts of unique victims, suspects, arrests or convictions.
- City police, not the whole county. The jurisdiction is Paducah Police Department; do not generalize these totals to all of McCracken County.
- No incident map yet. These annual totals have no addresses, coordinates, incident dates or neighborhood breakdowns.
- No safety ranking. Reporting practices, definitions and unreported incidents affect counts. No population-adjusted rate or causal claim is presented.
Explore the public-safety budget
See the Police Department’s budget and published spending categories. Spending and reported crime are different measures; these data do not establish a causal relationship.
View the police budget →