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Arrests in Kentucky

Agencies in Kentucky reported 164,417 arrests to the FBI in 2025, according to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.

Broken down here by the arrestee’s race, sex and age.

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An arrest is an event, not a person. One person arrested three times in a year is three arrests, so these are not counts of individuals and a rate is not the share of a population that was arrested.
Race is recorded by the arresting agency, not reported by the person arrested.
The FBI publishes no ethnicity field with these arrests, so no Hispanic or Latino figure can be derived from them. Hispanic arrestees are recorded under a race, which is why the population each rate divides by is that race across all origins rather than the non-Hispanic part of it.
The FBI’s “Multiple” category is an arresting officer’s classification of one person. The Census Bureau’s “two or more races” is what a person says about themselves. They are not the same population, so that row carries a count and no rate.
Reporting to the FBI is voluntary, and the FBI publishes no participating-agency figure with arrest data, so a change in an arrest count cannot be separated from a change in who reported. The size of that is measurable from its own state figures: national arrests rose 8.3% between 2022 and 2023, while NY alone rose 121.8% — 204,565 arrests from one state, against 539,374 nationally. Counts are not comparable across that year.
A rate is not published where fewer than 20 arrests lie behind it. That is the convention US federal vital statistics use for an unreliable rate, and it matters most in the smallest groups: nineteen arrests among a few hundred residents produces a figure that one or two arrests would move by a third. The count is always shown.
Comparing the composition of arrestees with the composition of a population assumes equal offending and equal likelihood of arrest across groups. This data supports neither assumption, and nothing here implies either.
344 arrests in 2025 carry no race at all — not even “unknown” — so the race rows total slightly less than the arrests recorded.

By race · 2025

Arrests per 100,000 residents of that group in Kentucky, using Census Bureau estimates for the same year. The FBI’s legacy grouping, “Asian, Native Hawaiian, or Other Pacific Islander”, contains two of the rows below and is left out rather than counted twice.

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Arrests in Kentucky by race, 2025
Race	Arrests	Share of arrests	Population	Per 100,000
White	127,490	77.5%	3,888,113	3,279
Black or African American	33,524	20.4%	399,758	8,386
Unknown	2,633	1.6%	no denominator	—
Asian	406	0.2%	99,980	406
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	218	0.1%	6,028	3,616
American Indian or Alaska Native	146	0.1%	24,412	598

By sex · 2025

119,325
Male: 5,266 per 100,000 residents; 45,092
Female: 1,926 per 100,000 residents

By age · 2025

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Arrests in Kentucky by age band and sex, 2025
Age	Sex	Arrests	Per 100,000
Under 10	Female	3	—
Under 10	Male	13	—
Under 11	Female	0	—
Under 11	Male	0	—
10-12	Female	92	53
10-12	Male	174	100
11-12	Female	0	—
11-12	Male	0	—
13-14	Female	193	167
13-14	Male	473	408
15	Female	142	239
15	Male	373	628
16	Female	147	242
16	Male	483	796
17	Female	121	194
17	Male	460	736
18	Female	386	635
18	Male	1,483	2,440
19	Female	481	819
19	Male	1,699	2,892
20	Female	552	931
20	Male	1,888	3,183
21	Female	695	1,148
21	Male	2,180	3,601
22	Female	722	1,188
22	Male	2,182	3,589
23	Female	852	1,375
23	Male	2,334	3,767
24	Female	933	1,446
24	Male	2,624	4,067
25-29	Female	5,286	1,762
25-29	Male	13,755	4,584
30-34	Female	6,935	2,355
30-34	Male	16,905	5,741
35-39	Female	8,082	2,771
35-39	Male	17,772	6,093
40-44	Female	7,301	2,552
40-44	Male	17,045	5,958
45-49	Female	5,235	1,881
45-49	Male	14,067	5,054
50-54	Female	3,104	1,127
50-54	Male	9,594	3,484
55-59	Female	1,865	675
55-59	Male	6,529	2,363
60-64	Female	1,207	412
60-64	Male	4,301	1,467
65 and over	Female	758	87
65 and over	Male	2,991	345
Juvenile Other	Female	0	—
Juvenile Other	Male	0	—
Adult Other	Female	0	—
Adult Other	Male	0	—

Sources

FBI Crime Data Explorer — Arrests — Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved September 19, 2026
Census Population Estimates — state characteristics — U.S. Census Bureau

Compiled automatically from FBI Crime Data Explorer — Arrests and Census Population Estimates — state characteristics by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved September 19, 2026

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