Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Hamilton County, Indiana, has about 380,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office and seven city agencies. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Hamilton Circuit and Superior Courts. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Hamilton County public records, Indiana arrest records, Indiana inmate search and Indiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Hamilton County
The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Hamilton County. It reported 1,028 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists seven cities in Hamilton County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Fishers, 103,986 residents: 1,009 arrests reported for 2025.
- Carmel, 103,606 residents: 1,531 arrests reported for 2025.
- Noblesville, 75,239 residents: 1,330 arrests reported for 2025.
- Westfield, 62,994 residents: 909 arrests reported for 2025.
- Cicero, 5,607 residents: 61 arrests reported for 2025.
- Sheridan, 3,487 residents: 185 arrests reported for 2025.
- Arcadia, 1,464 residents.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Hamilton County
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Carmel: 1,531 for 2025, 1,673 for 2024, 1,833 for 2023, 1,415 for 2022, 1,122 for 2021 and 1,177 for 2020.
- Noblesville: 1,330 for 2025, 1,280 for 2024, 981 for 2023, 643 for 2021, 616 for 2020 and 968 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Hamilton County Sheriff's Office: 1,028 for 2025, 1,097 for 2024, 926 for 2023, 747 for 2022 and 564 for 2021.
- Fishers: 1,009 for 2025, 1,056 for 2024, 862 for 2022, 753 for 2021, 1,043 for 2020 and 1,376 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Westfield: 909 for 2025, 653 for 2024, 745 for 2023, 749 for 2022, 687 for 2021 and 674 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Sheridan: 185 for 2025, 54 for 2024, 44 for 2023, 27 for 2022 and 63 for 2021.
- Cicero: 61 for 2025, 66 for 2023, 85 for 2022 and 92 for 2021; 2024 is missing months.
Together, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,053 arrests that year. The six of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 5,992 in 2025 against 5,813 in 2024, up 3.1 percent.
Through June 2026, the six agencies with every month so far on file reported 2,580 arrests, against 2,675 in the same months of 2025.
Arcadia reported only part of 2025 (10 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Hamilton County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Hamilton County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 360 people, down from about 370 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 506 beds, and it ran at 65 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office at hamiltoncounty.in.gov/609/Lookup-Current-Inmates (page title: Lookup Current Inmates | Hamilton County, IN), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Indiana Department of Correction lists its inmates at offenderlocator.idoc.in.gov/idoc-ofs-1.0.2/ofs.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Hamilton County
Whether someone was arrested in Hamilton County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Hamilton Circuit and Superior Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at hamiltoncounty.in.gov/189/Courts, phone 317-776-8282); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at hamiltoncounty.in.gov/477/Prosecuting-Attorney, phone 317-776-8595).
Statewide, mycase.IN.gov is the Indiana courts' free statewide case search.
Indiana is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Limited Criminal History search is open to anyone online, through the Indiana State Police. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Hamilton County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act the agency must answer within 24 hours for a request made in person and 7 days for one sent by mail or email, and it may charge a copy fee set by the agency, within statutory limits.
- An arrest by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Fishers, Carmel, Noblesville, Westfield, Cicero, Sheridan or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 317-776-8595, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Hamilton Circuit and Superior Courts, through the court records page at hamiltoncounty.in.gov/189/Courts, phone 317-776-8282.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at hamiltoncountyin.nextrequest.com (page title: Open Public RecordsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Hamilton County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for seven of the eight cities in Hamilton County: Fishers, Carmel, Noblesville, Westfield, Cicero, Sheridan and Arcadia. Atlanta has no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Hamilton Circuit and Superior Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Hamilton County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Carmel (103,606)
- Noblesville (75,239)
- Westfield (62,994)
- Cicero (5,607)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Hamilton County each year?
Carmel reported 1,531 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the seven agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 6,053 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Hamilton County?
Look on the custody page of the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office at hamiltoncounty.in.gov. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Hamilton County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Hamilton County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Indiana State Police: the Limited Criminal History search is open to anyone online. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Hamilton County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act the answer is due within 24 hours for a request made in person and 7 days for one sent by mail or email; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at hamiltoncountyin.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Hamilton County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.