Is Lexington safe in 2026? What LPD’s numbers actually mean for homeowners
The search is “is Lexington KY safe,” “Lexington crime 2026,” and “Lexington burglary rate.” The honest answer is better than the national headline cycle, and it is not a reason to skip monitoring. Lexington Police recorded 20 homicides in 2025, the lowest total in more than a decade, down from a 2022 peak of 44. Breaking-and-entering fell about 20.5 percent. Chief Lawrence Weathers treated that drop as the city’s direction, not as a dare to leave the slider unlocked. A better homicide year is good news. A 20.5 percent B&E drop is still hundreds of unsupervised hours that went badly for someone.
Home Security Systems Lexington does not scare-sell those figures. We cite Lexington Police and then sell the product: professionally installed sensors, optional cameras, ADT 24/7, cellular backup when Kentucky Utilities is dark. Call (859) 710-8600 with the ZIP. SafeStreets is the ADT Authorized Provider that installs. ADT monitors 24/7. A safer year is good news. It is not the watch. This is Lexington, Kentucky — not Lexington, South Carolina, and not a Pikeville mill.
What 2025 actually closed at
Treat the numbers as Lexington Police’s closed year, not as a marketing brochure. Twenty homicides in 2025 is the lowest in more than a decade. Forty-four in 2022 was the peak people still remember from the years after the pandemic. Breaking-and-entering down about 20.5 percent is the property-crime sentence that matches a door sensor. We will not invent a robbery percentage we do not have. We will not invent a neighborhood-by-neighborhood rate. Citywide figures mix downtown, Chevy Chase, Hamburg, Beaumont, and Masterson Station. A quieter street is not 24/7 monitoring.
Homicide totals are not how we quote a Chevy Chase bungalow. Porch packages, leftover keypads, and school-day empties are. If you own a house, burglary and theft from a porch or a car are the categories that match a door sensor, a garage contact, and an optional doorbell. We will not pretend 20 homicides means every ZIP is interchangeable. We also will not pretend 20 is a reason to panic-buy twelve cameras.
Occupancy is still occupancy. Empty houses still sit. That sentence survives a good year and a bad year.
How to read the numbers without buying fear
Citywide figures mix downtown, Gratz Park, Chevy Chase, east-side plats, and southwest HOAs. A neighbor on the porch is not an ADT operator. A year-over-year drop is not a lock. Lexington Police’s own 2025 homicide drop from the 2022 peak of 44 down to 20 is the sentence we want people to sit with. The drop is real and welcome. The B&E count did not take the year off just because it fell 20.5 percent.
We do not sell a keypad as a domestic-violence plan. We sell a keypad as a door plan. Keep the product in its lane or you will hate it for the wrong reason. Vehicle theft still exists even when headlines move. A garage walk-through contact is the boring add. A camera on Complete+ is the clip of a driveway. Neither replaces the other. Ask for the opening you actually have.
This article is dated in 2026 so those closed 2025 figures can sit here honestly. We do not backdate them into a 2024 evergreen post and pretend the year had already closed.
What homeowners actually call about
Not homicide maps. Porch packages in Chevy Chase and Hamburg. A leftover builder keypad in Beaumont. A downtown condo empty on a UK night. A Tates Creek two-story empty toward Tates Creek High. A KU outage that killed a Wi-Fi camera. Those calls did not wait for a crime map to turn red. They waited for the house to sit empty.
House versus condo, ZIP, cameras yes or no, leftover keypad. That is the 859 intake. We do not need a heat map. We need openings. A downtown 40507 condo with one door is not a Tates Creek walk-out. A Chevy Chase ranch with six windows you open is not a Masterson Station ranch with a garage. Architecture is not the quote. Occupancy is.
Promotional packages start at $53.99/mo* for ADT Secure+, then $63.99*, $74.99*. $99 install on many plans. Typically 36 months. Early termination fees apply. Credit approval applies. Offers are for homeowners. Crime being down does not change those numbers. Crime being down also does not make a leftover keypad live.
Downtown, Chevy Chase, and Hamburg are not one verdict
Chevy Chase and Ashland Park collect boxes and weekday foot traffic. That is a stoop problem plus a door problem. Porch packages is that article. Downtown empties toward campus and toward Rupp. UK and Keeneland empties is that article. Beaumont and Palomar empty toward jobs and schools and still have leftover panels. Hamburg and Masterson Station empty toward Man o’ War and still think the builder keypad is ADT. It is not. Builder leftovers is the hardware.
Georgetown weekday empties are a Toyota calendar. Nicholasville and Versailles are different halls. We install in this Bluegrass window. We do not mill Pikeville. We do not tell you a southwest plat is “safe so skip it” or an east-side street is “unsafe so buy twelve cameras.” We tell you the house sits. Order the openings.
We confirm the earliest SafeStreets window on the call. We do not invent same-day install. Other coverage is never a next-morning promise. The crime report does not change the dispatch desk. CryWolf is still urban-county paper. Georgetown, Nicholasville, and Versailles still confirm at their own offices.
Burglary is the category that matches this product
A 20.5 percent breaking-and-entering drop is a better pile. The pile is still made of houses and businesses that were entered. Residential openings are what SafeStreets puts contacts on. A professionally installed system cannot promise your address is not in next year’s count. It can promise that an armed door opening becomes a call from ADT instead of a surprise when you get home from Henry Clay pickup.
People skip monitoring in a “down year” and then order after the one incident on their street. That is a human pattern, not a Lexington-only pattern. The cheaper time to order is the week you move in, leftover keypad still on the wall, $99 install* still on the table, not the week after someone tried the slider. Photograph the leftover.
Cellular backup is the other “down year” sentence. A better crime year does not stop ice from taking KU lines. A Wi-Fi camera still dies with the router. Cellular backup is that article. Ask it on the quote even if you called because of a news story.
Permits and false alarms are not a crime score
Lexington-Fayette registration through CryWolf is required at $15 a year. False alarms 1–3 are $0, then $25 / $60 / $125 / $200 / $250 / $300. Unregistered systems are $100 per false alarm. See lexingtonky.gov. A professionally installed system with a walkthrough is how you stay in the $0 false-alarm bracket. A scared DIY kit with no delay is how you meet Lexington Police for a toaster and train the department on noise. CryWolf is the city form. Three desks is the comparison if you are not in the urban county.
False alarms do not make Lexington less safe. They make responders less interested in your address. That is the opposite of what you wanted when you searched “is Lexington safe.” Pay for the install. Learn the cancel process. Add the spouse to the app.
What we will not do with LPD’s report
We will not draw a heat map. We will not rank neighborhoods as good and bad for SEO. We will not tell you Chevy Chase is unsafe. We will not tell you Beaumont is so safe the leftover keypad can wait. We will not use Chief Lawrence Weathers’s quotes as a closer. We will not hide $53.99*, $99 install*, or 36 months behind a crime statistic. We will not take a form. We will not take a tenant on the homeowner promotion.
We will not pretend 20 homicides is a personality trait of the city that lasts forever. The chief’s challenge is not our headline. Our headline is still occupancy. Empty house. Door. ADT.
School days, not night-time legends
Most of the unsupervised hours in this metro are 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on a Fayette County Public Schools calendar. Henry Clay, Tates Creek, Lafayette, Bryan Station, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frederick Douglass. Those hours match burglary better than a Saturday night story. School-day empties is the calendar article. Arm the system for those hours even if you only searched this page because a homicide total made the news.
UK basketball empties Chevy Chase and downtown on a different calendar. Keeneland empties Versailles Road on a race-week calendar. Toyota empties Georgetown on a weekday calendar. One system. Several calendars. Arm whenever the hallway is empty.
What a 20.5 percent B&E drop still leaves on a Tuesday
Breaking-and-entering moving down 20.5 percent is a real drop. It is also still a pile of events. A better homicide year from 44 in 2022 to 20 in 2025 is the better trend. Trends are not sensors. Tuesday at 1 p.m. in a Chevy Chase bungalow is still an empty house. Tuesday at 1 p.m. in a Hamburg two-story is still an empty house. The citywide percentage does not sit in either hallway.
We cite the drop so you do not think we need a panic headline to take the order. We cite the remaining B&E so you do not think a better homicide year retired this product. Both citations belong here. Neither one is a heat map. Call (859) 710-8600 with the ZIP you actually live in, not the ZIP a viral clip used.
Independent cities, county streets, and who would actually be called
Lexington Police numbers are Lexington-Fayette. Georgetown Police, Nicholasville, Versailles, Richmond, Paris, and Winchester are not in that 20-homicide figure. A Scott County household that treats LPD’s drop as their local grade is reading the wrong report. Confirm the desk from the ZIP. A quieter town still has school-day empties, leftover keypads, and porch boxes. A city ZIP with a better year still has sliders. We install in both when they sit in this window. We do not mill Pikeville and then quote Lexington Police.
Dispatch after an alarm is the department that serves the address. ADT requests help. The department responds the way that department responds. We will not print a minute count. We will not tell you Lexington Police is “too busy” so you should buy cameras, and we will not tell you Georgetown is “so quiet” you should skip sensors. Occupancy is the closer. The report is context.
If you moved from a 40502 house to a 40324 house because you wanted a different feel, congratulations. Photograph the leftover panel. File Georgetown’s office, not CryWolf by default. The move did not bring monitoring with the furniture.
Porch theft is not in the homicide total
People search “is Lexington safe” after a box walks off a Chevy Chase stoop or a Hamburg garage pad, then bounce off a homicide number that has nothing to do with the box. Twenty homicides is not porch theft. A 20.5 percent B&E drop is closer, and it is still not the clip of a driver leaving a Chewy bag in view of Euclid. A doorbell on Complete+ is the clip. A door sensor on Secure+ is the alarm if they try the house. Buy the layer that matches the problem you actually had. Do not skip both because the homicide year improved.
UK nights and Keeneland weeks empty houses that were already empty at lunch. That is occupancy stacked on occupancy, not a new crime category. Arm the system for the hours nobody is in the hallway. A better citywide year does not sit on the stoop. Porch packages is the stoop article. This page is why you should not use a homicide total as a reason to wait.
HOA plats and “safe neighborhood” listings
Beaumont and Hamburg listings love the word safe. Gates, covenants, and a leftover keypad are not ADT. HOA camera rules is why a board can limit video and still leave the door unwatched. Indoor sensors do not need a variance. Monitoring does not need a crime spike. A 20-homicide year does not retire the leftover keypad in a Palomar utility room.
People use “is Lexington safe” as a relocation question. Pick the school. Pick the commute. Then order the watch for the hours nobody is in the hallway. That is the whole use of this page. We will not rank Chevy Chase against Hamburg as a safety product. We will count doors in both.
How to order the watch, not the verdict
Call (859) 710-8600. ZIP. House versus condo. Door and slider count. Cameras yes or no. Leftover keypad photo. Hear the monthly price, the install, the agreement, and the registration office. SafeStreets installs. ADT monitors 24/7. We confirm the earliest window. We do not invent same-day.
How to order is the process. How much ADT is is the money. This page is the Lexington Police numbers without the scare. Lexington homeowners can trust a SafeStreets security system monitored by ADT. Twenty homicides is a better year. A 20.5 percent B&E drop is still a reason the slider needs a contact. Chief Lawrence Weathers’s report is not a person at a monitoring center. The 859 call is how you get the person.