Crime Rate in Ohio (2025)
The FBI-based Crime Index for 17 cities in Ohio, plus the statewide average. Scores run 0–100 (higher = safer) and are built from FBI Crime Data Explorer reports for 2025.
Crime Index
Crime trend in Ohio
All 17 cities in Ohio
Ranked safest to most dangerous by Crime Index.
- 1MiddletownA994per 100k0.0homicide
- 2ParmaB874per 100k1.3homicide
- 3KetteringB1,445per 100k0.0homicide
- 4ElyriaB1,514per 100k1.9homicide
- 5Cuyahoga FallsB1,833per 100k2.0homicide
- 6NewarkB1,649per 100k0.0homicide
- 7HamiltonC2,628per 100k1.6homicide
- 8YoungstownC1,989per 100k10.2homicide
- 9LorainC1,916per 100k4.5homicide
- 10ColumbusC2,903per 100k9.0homicide
- 11ToledoE3,391per 100k10.6homicide
- 12AkronE3,715per 100k12.7homicide
- 13CincinnatiE4,380per 100k20.9homicide
- 14CantonF4,486per 100k17.4homicide
- 15DaytonF5,242per 100k18.4homicide
- 16SpringfieldF5,446per 100k15.5homicide
- 17ClevelandF5,309per 100k28.3homicide
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A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2025. See the full methodology →