Bratenahl, OH has a B safety grade (70/100) with a violent crime rate of 287 per 100,000, 19% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Bratenahl's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,396). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to OH and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Bratenahl, OH carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 19% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bratenahl, OH shows violent crime at 286.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 214.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 19% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 57.1% of the 7 Part I offenses reported in Bratenahl for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 46.6 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.
Small-count caution
Bratenahl reported 4 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,396. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 693.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 286.5 in 2024 (-58.7%). The highest observed value was 693.8 in 2020 and the lowest 71.5 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bratenahl's 286.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Wooster (285.5), Forest Park (283.8), Struthers (283.5), Jackson (290.8). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 286.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bratenahl ranks 56 of 340 — above 284 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +153.4% 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 100.0% of reported property offenses in Bratenahl, against a cohort median of 83.9%. The remainder is burglary (0) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Bratenahl's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 4 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,396. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 1 Census sq mi, Bratenahl logged 2.9 property and 3.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bratenahl leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,878.
Violent offenses are 57% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
Bratenahl offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 4 | 286.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 214.9 |
| Robbery | 1 | 71.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 3 | 214.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 3 | 214.9 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
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 | 1,153 | 693.8 | 693.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,156 | 259.5 | 346 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,399 | 71.5 | 571.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,393 | 215.4 | 215.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,396 | 286.5 | 214.9 |
Bratenahl Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bratenahl's 7 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 Bratenahl in population. Their populations run from 1,182 to 1,633, against 1,396 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Bratenahl reported 4 violent crimes and 3 property crimes, for a total of 7 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Bratenahl's violent crime rate increased by 33%, and the property crime rate decreased by 0.2%.
The most common crime type in Bratenahl is larceny-theft, accounting for 42.9% of all reported crimes (3 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Bratenahl's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Bratenahl's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bratenahl, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Bratenahl is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (1,396 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.