Cleveland, OH has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1561 per 100,000, 343% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
At 362,762 residents, Cleveland is a very 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
Cleveland, OH carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 343% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cleveland, OH shows violent crime at 1,561.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,426.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 343% 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 1561.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cleveland ranks 2 of 340 — above 338 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +1280.4% 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 Cleveland's 1561.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Elmwood Place (1613.7), East Cleveland (1409.7), Springfield (1371.1), Dayton (1339.2). 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 26.1% of the 21,720 Part I offenses reported in Cleveland for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 15.5 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 54.7% of reported property offenses in Cleveland, against a cohort median of 84.0%. The remainder is burglary (3,121) and motor vehicle theft (4,159). 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 1683.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1561.1 in 2024 (-7.3%). The highest observed value was 1726.1 in 2023 and the lowest 1561.1 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Cleveland'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 very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 77.7 Census sq mi, Cleveland logged 206.6 property and 72.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Cleveland leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,534.
Violent offenses are 26% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Cleveland offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (77.7 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 | 16,057 | 4426.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 8,777 | 2419.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4,159 | 1146.5 |
| Burglary | 3,121 | 860.3 |
| Arson | 190 | 52.4 |
| Violent Crime | 5,663 | 1561.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3,631 | 1000.9 |
| Robbery | 1,412 | 389.2 |
| Rape | 511 | 140.9 |
| Murder | 109 | 30 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 379,121 | 1683.9 | 4230.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 379,313 | 1703.9 | 3914.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 363,764 | 1630.7 | 4400.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 358,146 | 1726.1 | 4980.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 362,762 | 1561.1 | 4426.3 |
Cleveland Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Cleveland's 21,720 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 Cleveland in population. Their populations run from 63,335 to 311,599, against 362,762 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Cleveland sits at 1,561.1/100K violent (grade F); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Cleveland at 1,561.1/100K violent and 4,426.3/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,561.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
4,426.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-9.6% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Cleveland reported 5,663 violent crimes and 16,057 property crimes, for a total of 21,720 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Cleveland's violent crime rate decreased by 9.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.1%.
The most common crime type in Cleveland is larceny-theft, accounting for 40.4% of all reported crimes (8,777 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Cleveland'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 (very 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 Cleveland's very large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Cleveland, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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