Cleveland Heights, OH has a B safety grade (64/100) with a violent crime rate of 251 per 100,000, 29% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Cleveland Heights, OH Crime Rate & Safety
Cleveland Heights (43,853 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then OH and national benchmarks.
Cleveland Heights, OH carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 29% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cleveland Heights, OH shows violent crime at 250.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,299.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 29% 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.
B safety grade
250.8/100K violent
1299.8/100K property
-29% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Cleveland Heights, OH
Comparable rate records
Cleveland Heights's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Ohio cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Cleveland Heights's 250.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Colerain Township (251.7), East Liverpool (249.2), Eastlake (254.8), Wellston (255.9). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Cleveland Heights reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Ohio cities
At 250.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cleveland Heights ranks 71 of 340 — above 269 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +121.8% 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 58.1% of reported property offenses in Cleveland Heights, against a cohort median of 84.0%. The remainder is burglary (73) and motor vehicle theft (166). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 16.2% of the 680 Part I offenses reported in Cleveland Heights for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 5.6 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 263.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 250.8 in 2024 (-4.6%). The highest observed value was 282.1 in 2021 and the lowest 193.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Cleveland Heights'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.
Cleveland Heights's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 8.1 Census sq mi, Cleveland Heights logged 70.7 property and 13.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Cleveland Heights leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,200.
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+29.5%
193.7 → 250.8/100K
Property Crime Rate
+11.9%
1162 → 1299.8/100K
Property offenses lead Cleveland Heights's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
570
1299.8
1711
Larceny-Theft
331
754.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
166
378.5
-
Burglary
73
166.5
-
Arson
1
2.3
-
Violent Crime
110
250.8
352
Aggravated Assault
69
157.3
-
Robbery
21
47.9
-
Rape
17
38.8
-
Murder
3
6.8
-
Cleveland Heights Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Cleveland Heights property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Cleveland Heights Police Department
Reporting agency for Cleveland Heights NIBRS-participating
Cleveland Heights Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Cleveland Heights's 680 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Ohio
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Ohio cities closest to Cleveland Heights in population. Their populations run from 41,687 to 46,369, against 43,853 here. Or use our
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How many crimes were reported in Cleveland Heights?
In 2024, Cleveland Heights reported 110 violent crimes and 570 property crimes, for a total of 680 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Cleveland Heights?
From 2023 to 2024, Cleveland Heights's violent crime rate increased by 29.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 11.9%.
What is the most common crime in Cleveland Heights?
The most common crime type in Cleveland Heights is larceny-theft, accounting for 48.7% of all reported crimes (331 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Cleveland Heights 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Cleveland Heights, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.