Butler Township, OH has a D safety grade (26/100) with a violent crime rate of 439 per 100,000, 25% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Butler Township is a small municipal reporter (8,195 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with OH and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Butler Township, OH carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 25% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Butler Township, OH shows violent crime at 439.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 6,565 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 25% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 439.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Butler Township ranks 30 of 340 — above 310 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +288.4% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Butler Township's 439.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Columbus (434.9), Marion (446.7), Gallipolis (427.6), Garfield Heights (464.1). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 68.6% of reported property offenses in Butler Township, against a cohort median of 84.0%. The remainder is burglary (30) and motor vehicle theft (139). 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 371.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 439.3 in 2024 (+18.4%). The highest observed value was 439.3 in 2024 and the lowest 206.8 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 6.3% of the 574 Part I offenses reported in Butler Township for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 4.3 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 Butler Township'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Butler Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 574 offenses; mix index 4,764).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Butler Township offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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 | 538 | 6565 |
| Larceny-Theft | 369 | 4502.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 139 | 1696.2 |
| Burglary | 30 | 366.1 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 36 | 439.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 20 | 244.1 |
| Rape | 13 | 158.6 |
| Robbery | 2 | 24.4 |
| Murder | 1 | 12.2 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 7,816 | 371 | 7561.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 7,835 | 319.1 | 6024.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,219 | 206.8 | 5280.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,197 | 329.4 | 5062.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,195 | 439.3 | 6565 |
Butler Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Butler Township's 574 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 Butler Township in population. Their populations run from 8,005 to 8,571, against 8,195 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Butler Township sits at 439.3/100K violent (grade D); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Butler Township reported 36 violent crimes and 538 property crimes, for a total of 574 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Butler Township's violent crime rate increased by 33.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 29.7%.
The most common crime type in Butler Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.3% of all reported crimes (369 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Butler Township is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Butler Township's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Butler Township, 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. Butler Township is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (8,195 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.