Cuyahoga Falls, OH has a B safety grade (67/100) with a violent crime rate of 174 per 100,000, 51% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 50,639 residents, Cuyahoga Falls is a 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 2026-09-05
Cuyahoga Falls, OH is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 51% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cuyahoga Falls, OH shows violent crime at 173.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,846.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 51% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 75.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 173.8 in 2024 (+130.4%). The highest observed value was 208.1 in 2023 and the lowest 6.1 in 2021. 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 Cuyahoga Falls's 173.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Ashland (172.5), Northwood (172.2), Botkins (169.2), Fostoria (168.7). 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 173.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cuyahoga Falls ranks 110 of 340 — above 230 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +53.7% 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 counts dominate Cuyahoga Falls'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 large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 25.8 Census sq mi, Cuyahoga Falls logged 36.2 property and 3.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Cuyahoga Falls's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 1,023 offenses; mix index 6,640).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Cuyahoga Falls offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (25.8 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 | 935 | 1846.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 827 | 1633.1 |
| Burglary | 63 | 124.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 45 | 88.9 |
| Arson | 1 | 2 |
| Violent Crime | 88 | 173.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 69 | 136.3 |
| Rape | 14 | 27.6 |
| Robbery | 5 | 9.9 |
| 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 · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 49,061 | 75.4 | 1958.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 48,949 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 50,607 | 142.3 | 1851.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 50,459 | 208.1 | 1886.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 50,639 | 173.8 | 1846.4 |
Cuyahoga Falls Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Cuyahoga Falls's 1,023 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 Cuyahoga Falls in population. Their populations run from 46,369 to 53,263, against 50,639 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Cuyahoga Falls sits at 173.8/100K violent (grade B); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Cuyahoga Falls at 173.8/100K violent and 1,846.4/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
173.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,846.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-16.5% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Cuyahoga Falls reported 88 violent crimes and 935 property crimes, for a total of 1,023 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Cuyahoga Falls's violent crime rate decreased by 16.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 2.1%.
The most common crime type in Cuyahoga Falls is larceny-theft, accounting for 80.8% of all reported crimes (827 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Cuyahoga Falls'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 (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 Cuyahoga Falls's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Cuyahoga Falls, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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