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.
Vanderburgh County, Indiana, has about 180,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and one campus 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 Vanderburgh 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: Vanderburgh County public records, Indiana arrest records, Indiana inmate search and Indiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Vanderburgh County
The Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Vanderburgh County. It reported 830 arrests for 2025.
One city in Vanderburgh County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Evansville, 115,395 residents: 4,512 arrests reported for 2025.
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 Vanderburgh County: Indiana University at Evansville (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Vanderburgh County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Evansville: 4,512 for 2025, 4,456 for 2024, 5,197 for 2023, 4,609 for 2022 and 3,922 for 2021.
- Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office: 830 for 2025, 832 for 2024, 763 for 2023 and 683 for 2022.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,342 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 5,342 in 2025 against 5,288 in 2024, up 1 percent.
Through April 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,890 arrests, against 1,622 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Vanderburgh County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Vanderburgh 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 570 people, down from about 820 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 512 beds, and it ran at 137 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 Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office at vanderburghsheriff.org/jail/inmate-lookup (page title: Inmate Lookup | Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office), phone 812-421-6200, 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 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 Vanderburgh County
Whether someone was arrested in Vanderburgh County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Vanderburgh Circuit and Superior Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at in.gov/courts/local/vanderburgh-county); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at vanderburghprosecutor.org, phone 812-435-5150).
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 Vanderburgh 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 Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 812-421-6200.
- An arrest in Evansville: 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 Indiana University at Evansville: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 812-435-5150, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Vanderburgh Circuit and Superior Courts, through the court records page at in.gov/courts/local/vanderburgh-county.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at evansvillegov.org (page title: Request Public Records | Vanderburgh County).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Vanderburgh County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Vanderburgh County: Evansville. Darmstadt 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 Vanderburgh Circuit and Superior Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Vanderburgh County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Evansville (115,395)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Vanderburgh County each year?
Evansville reported 4,512 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 5,342 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Vanderburgh County?
Look on the custody page of the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office at vanderburghsheriff.org/jail/inmate-lookup, or call 812-421-6200. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Vanderburgh County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Vanderburgh 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 Vanderburgh County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Vanderburgh 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 evansvillegov.org.
Is this the official Vanderburgh 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.