Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in Cincinnati (2024)
Cincinnati's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these CPD neighborhoods are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The CPD neighborhoods at the top of this list have the most reported incidents relative to other Cincinnati CPD neighborhoods.
Volume, not a safety rate. Cincinnati Police neighborhood resident population is not reliably available for a per-100k rate, so no safety grade is published for any zone (see /crime-rate/methodology §6.6). The geographic unit is the Cincinnati Police neighborhood (a policing/analysis boundary, not a resident-population neighborhood). relativeIndex ranks each zone by its VIOLENCE-WEIGHTED reported-incident volume (violent incidents weighted 3x property) against the other Cincinnati zones — it is NOT population-adjusted and must not be read as a safety rate. Offenses are grouped into three coarse buckets (violent / property / other) via a keyword classifier.
Ranked highest reported volume first
Not the same CPD neighborhoods as the safest neighborhoods in cincinnati list.
- 1Westwood0/100
- 2East Price Hill22/100
- 3C. B. D. / Riverfront26/100
- 4West Price Hill29/100
- 5Avondale43/100
- 6Over-The-Rhine50/100
- 7Walnut Hills53/100
- 8Corryville57/100
- 9West End58/100
- 10Roselawn65/100
- 11Oakley69/100
- 12Mount Airy72/100
- 13College Hill73/100
- 14Winton Hills75/100
- 15Northside76/100
- 16Clifton76/100
- 17Evanston77/100
- 18South Fairmount78/100
- 19Clifton/University Heights79/100
- 20North Avondale80/100
- 21Mount Auburn80/100
- 22Bondhill84/100
- 23Fairview85/100
- 24Hartwell86/100
- 25Pleasant Ridge87/100
- 26Millvale87/100
- 27Madisonville88/100
- 28Hyde Park88/100
- 29East Westwood88/100
- 30Carthage89/100
- 31Spring Grove Village90/100
- 32Fay Apartments90/100
- 33Mt. Washington91/100
- 34Camp Washington91/100
- 35Queensgate92/100
- 36East Walnut Hills93/100
- 37Pendleton94/100
- 38Riverside95/100
- 39Paddock Hills95/100
- 40Lower Price Hill95/100
Showing the top 40 of 49 CPD neighborhoods.
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Most dangerous neighborhoods in Cincinnati — FAQ
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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 2024. See the full methodology →