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Ohio Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Ohio cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.

Cities ranked
143
Supported Ohio cities with tract-backed crime context.
Leaderboard

Current order from the latest data

Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.

#PlaceMetric
1 Cleveland
Violent Crime has declined 3% since 2021.
14.1 / 1k
2 East Cleveland
Violent Crime has increased 110% since 2021.
13.2 / 1k
3 Dayton
Violent Crime has increased 31% since 2021.
12.6 / 1k
4 Springfield
Violent Crime has increased 18% since 2021.
12.2 / 1k
5 Lockland
Violent Crime has increased 47% since 2021.
11.6 / 1k
6 Canton
Violent Crime has declined 20% since 2021.
11.1 / 1k
7 Whitehall
Violent Crime has increased 2% since 2021.
9.9 / 1k
8 Toledo
Violent Crime has declined 2% since 2021.
8.2 / 1k
9 Cincinnati
Violent Crime has increased 7% since 2021.
8.1 / 1k
10 Akron
Violent Crime has increased 5% since 2021.
7.7 / 1k
11 Lima
Violent Crime has increased 27% since 2021.
7.6 / 1k
12 Lakemore
Violent Crime has increased 97% since 2021.
6.5 / 1k
13 Trotwood
Violent Crime has increased 3% since 2021.
6.3 / 1k
14 Youngstown
Violent Crime has declined 11% since 2021.
6.2 / 1k
15 Moraine
Violent Crime has declined 29% since 2021.
5.9 / 1k
16 Lorain
Violent Crime has increased 6% since 2021.
5.5 / 1k
17 Marion
Violent Crime has increased 100% since 2021.
5.2 / 1k
18 Reynoldsburg
Violent Crime has increased 58% since 2021.
5.2 / 1k
19 Springdale
Violent Crime moved up by 4.1 / 1k from 0.9 / 1k in 2021 to 5.0 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
5.0 / 1k
20 Maple Heights
Violent Crime has increased 71% since 2021.
4.8 / 1k
21 Piqua
Violent Crime has increased 30% since 2021.
4.8 / 1k
22 Garfield Heights
Violent Crime has declined 18% since 2021.
4.6 / 1k
23 Columbus
Violent Crime has declined 21% since 2021.
4.5 / 1k
24 Lancaster
Violent Crime has increased 50% since 2021.
4.2 / 1k
25 Massillon
Violent Crime has increased 58% since 2021.
3.8 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

Research note

What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Ohio cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.

Research note

What this ranking can miss

A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.