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 on September 23, 2026.
Hendricks County, Indiana, has about 191,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Hendricks County Sheriff's Office, 11 city agencies and one other agency. 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 Hendricks 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: Hendricks County public records, Indiana arrest records, Indiana inmate search and Indiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Hendricks County
The Hendricks County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Hendricks County. It reported 828 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside 11 of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Plainfield, 37,796 residents: 649 arrests reported for 2025.
- Brownsburg, 33,430 residents: 516 arrests reported for 2025.
- Avon, 24,735 residents: 614 arrests reported for 2025.
- Danville, 12,532 residents: 223 arrests reported for 2025.
- Pittsboro, 4,288 residents: 70 arrests reported for 2025.
- Clayton, 949 residents.
- Coatesville, 573 residents.
- Lizton, 507 residents.
- North Salem, 474 residents.
- Amo, 426 residents.
- Stilesville, 276 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.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Hendricks County: Brownsburg Community School (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Hendricks 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.
- Hendricks County Sheriff's Office: 828 for 2025, 874 for 2024, 871 for 2023, 808 for 2022, 1,025 for 2021 and 875 for 2020.
- Plainfield: 649 for 2025, 622 for 2024, 689 for 2023, 681 for 2022, 798 for 2021 and 733 for 2020.
- Avon: 614 for 2025, 476 for 2024, 550 for 2023, 563 for 2022, 473 for 2021 and 380 for 2020.
- Brownsburg: 516 for 2025, 630 for 2024, 485 for 2023, 444 for 2022, 575 for 2021 and 458 for 2020.
- Danville: 223 for 2025, 268 for 2024, 418 for 2023, 270 for 2022 and 319 for 2021.
- Pittsboro: 70 for 2025, 36 for 2024, 27 for 2023, 33 for 2022, 43 for 2021 and 54 for 2020.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,900 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,900 in 2025 against 2,906 in 2024, down 0.2 percent.
Coatesville and North Salem reported only part of 2025 (5 months and 1 month) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Hendricks County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Hendricks County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 340 people, up from about 260 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 252 beds, and it ran at 103 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 Hendricks County Sheriff's Office at avonindiana.gov/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=55 (page title: Quick Links, Police | Hendricks County Jail Inmate Lookup), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Indiana Department of Correction, whose inmate locator is at offenderlocator.idoc.in.gov/idoc-ofs-1.0.2/ofs.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Hendricks County
An arrest in Hendricks County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Hendricks County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Hendricks Circuit and Superior Courts, kept by the Clerk of the Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.hendricks.in.us/department/index.php?structureid=29, phone (317) 745-9283).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at co.hendricks.in.us/department/index.php?structureid=13 (page title: County Courts | Hendricks County, Indiana), belongs to a lower court, not to the Hendricks Circuit and Superior Courts.
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 Hendricks County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Hendricks County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Plainfield, Brownsburg, Avon, Danville, Pittsboro, Clayton 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.
- An arrest by Brownsburg Community School: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, (317) 745-9283, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Hendricks Circuit and Superior Courts it is kept by the Clerk of the Circuit Court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at co.hendricks.in.us, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Hendricks County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the 11 cities in Hendricks County: Plainfield, Brownsburg, Avon, Danville, Pittsboro, Clayton, Coatesville, Lizton, North Salem, Amo and Stilesville.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Hendricks Circuit and Superior Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Hendricks County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Hendricks County each year?
The Hendricks County Sheriff's Office reported 828 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,900 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Hendricks County?
Look on the custody page of the Hendricks County Sheriff's Office at avonindiana.gov/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=55. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Hendricks County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hendricks County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Hendricks 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 Hendricks County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Hendricks 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.
Is this the official Hendricks 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.