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Safest 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 fewest reported incidents relative to other Cincinnati CPD neighborhoods.

Areas ranked
49
CPD neighborhoods
Safest
Mt. Lookout
Most dangerous
Westwood

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 lowest reported volume first

Not the same CPD neighborhoods as the most dangerous neighborhoods in cincinnati list.

Showing the top 40 of 49 CPD neighborhoods.

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Safest neighborhoods in Cincinnati — FAQ

What is the safest neighborhood in Cincinnati?
By 2024 reported crime volume, Mt. Lookout ranks as the safest CPD neighborhood in Cincinnati in this data. See the full ranking above for how every CPD neighborhood compares.
How are Cincinnati neighborhoods ranked?
Cincinnati publishes crime by CPD neighborhood without a resident-population figure, so we rank by severity-weighted reported incident volume (violent incidents weighted more heavily than property) relative to other Cincinnati CPD neighborhoods — not a per-100,000 rate. It shows where incidents concentrate, not per-person risk.
Does this predict how safe a specific street is?
No. This ranks whole CPD neighborhoods, which can contain very different blocks. Use it to compare areas at a glance, then look at street-level detail, visit, and check local providers before deciding.

No area has zero risk

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 →

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