Ashtabula, OH has a B safety grade (73/100) with a violent crime rate of 186 per 100,000, 47% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Ashtabula (17,723 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then OH and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Ashtabula, OH carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 47% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ashtabula, OH shows violent crime at 186.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 919.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 47% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Ashtabula's 186.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Middleport (186.9), Hubbard (185.4), Liberty Township (185.2), Ada (188.9). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 128.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 186.2 in 2024 (+44.9%). The highest observed value was 186.2 in 2024 and the lowest 5.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 186.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ashtabula ranks 102 of 340 — above 238 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +64.6% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 66.9% of reported property offenses in Ashtabula, against a cohort median of 84.0%. The remainder is burglary (39) and motor vehicle theft (15). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 16.8% of the 196 Part I offenses reported in Ashtabula for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 6.2 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 counts dominate Ashtabula'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 7.7 Census sq mi, Ashtabula logged 21.2 property and 4.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Ashtabula leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,652.
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Ashtabula offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.7 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 | 163 | 919.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 109 | 615 |
| Burglary | 39 | 220.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 15 | 84.6 |
| Arson | 3 | 16.9 |
| Violent Crime | 33 | 186.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 15 | 84.6 |
| Robbery | 11 | 62.1 |
| Rape | 7 | 39.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 17,900 | 128.5 | 446.9 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 17,802 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 17,908 | 5.6 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 17,731 | 22.6 | 90.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 17,723 | 186.2 | 919.7 |
Ashtabula Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Ashtabula's 196 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Ashtabula in population. Their populations run from 17,362 to 18,069, against 17,723 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Ashtabula sits at 186.2/100K violent (grade B); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Ashtabula at 186.2/100K violent and 919.7/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
186.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
919.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Ashtabula reported 33 violent crimes and 163 property crimes, for a total of 196 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Ashtabula's violent crime rate increased by 723.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 919.6%.
The most common crime type in Ashtabula is larceny-theft, accounting for 55.6% of all reported crimes (109 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Ashtabula figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Ashtabula's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Ashtabula, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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