Akron, OH has a F safety grade (4/100) with a violent crime rate of 820 per 100,000, 133% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 188,223 residents, Akron is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against OH and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Akron, OH carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 133% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Akron, OH shows violent crime at 820.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,955 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 133% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 820.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Akron ranks 12 of 340 — above 328 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +625.3% against the cohort median of 113.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Akron's 820.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Cincinnati (845.6), Lima (758.3), North College Hill (914.8), Portsmouth (715.0). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 21.7% of the 7,106 Part I offenses reported in Akron for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 11.1 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 73.2% of reported property offenses in Akron, against a cohort median of 84.0%. The remainder is burglary (714) and motor vehicle theft (777). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 926.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 820.3 in 2024 (-11.5%). The highest observed value was 926.4 in 2020 and the lowest 801.3 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Akron's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 61.9 Census sq mi, Akron logged 89.8 property and 24.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Akron leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,780.
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Akron offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (61.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 5,562 | 2955 |
| Larceny-Theft | 4,071 | 2162.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 777 | 412.8 |
| Burglary | 714 | 379.3 |
| Arson | 41 | 21.8 |
| Violent Crime | 1,544 | 820.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1,152 | 612 |
| Rape | 213 | 113.2 |
| Robbery | 155 | 82.3 |
| Murder | 24 | 12.8 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 197,433 | 926.4 | 3626.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 195,701 | 852.8 | 3379.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 188,534 | 837 | 3524.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 187,705 | 801.3 | 3081.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 188,223 | 820.3 | 2955 |
Akron Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Akron's 7,106 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Ohio cities closest to Akron in population. Their populations run from 62,860 to 311,599, against 188,223 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Akron sits at 820.3/100K violent (grade F); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Akron at 820.3/100K violent and 2,955/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
820.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,955/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+2.4% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Akron reported 1,544 violent crimes and 5,562 property crimes, for a total of 7,106 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Akron's violent crime rate increased by 2.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4.1%.
The most common crime type in Akron is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.3% of all reported crimes (4,071 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Akron's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Akron's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Akron, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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