East Cleveland, OH has a F safety grade (4/100) with a violent crime rate of 1410 per 100,000, 300% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
East Cleveland (13,336 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then OH and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
East Cleveland, OH carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 300% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, East Cleveland, OH shows violent crime at 1,409.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,999.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 300% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 320.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1409.7 in 2024 (+340.1%). The highest observed value was 1602.9 in 2023 and the lowest 320.3 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 1409.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, East Cleveland ranks 3 of 340 — above 337 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +1146.5% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 32.0% of the 588 Part I offenses reported in East Cleveland for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 21.4 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to East Cleveland's 1409.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Springfield (1371.1), Dayton (1339.2), Cleveland (1561.1), Elmwood Place (1613.7). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 50.0% of reported property offenses in East Cleveland, against a cohort median of 84.0%. The remainder is burglary (74) and motor vehicle theft (126). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate East 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 3.1 Census sq mi, East Cleveland logged 129.7 property and 61 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
East Cleveland's 8 active offense types stay diversified (mix index 2,363); larceny-theft still leads at 34%.
Violent offenses are 32% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
East Cleveland offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.1 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 400 | 2999.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 200 | 1499.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 126 | 944.8 |
| Burglary | 74 | 554.9 |
| Arson | 7 | 52.5 |
| Violent Crime | 188 | 1409.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 138 | 1034.8 |
| Robbery | 33 | 247.5 |
| Rape | 12 | 90 |
| Murder | 5 | 37.5 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 16,859 | 320.3 | 871.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 16,810 | 666.3 | 1064.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 13,418 | 1058.3 | 2280.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 13,351 | 1602.9 | 2846.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 13,336 | 1409.7 | 2999.4 |
East Cleveland Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind East Cleveland's 588 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 East Cleveland in population. Their populations run from 13,098 to 13,559, against 13,336 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
East Cleveland sits at 1,409.7/100K violent (grade F); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
East Cleveland at 1,409.7/100K violent and 2,999.4/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,409.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,999.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, East Cleveland reported 188 violent crimes and 400 property crimes, for a total of 588 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, East Cleveland's violent crime rate decreased by 12.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 5.4%.
The most common crime type in East Cleveland is larceny-theft, accounting for 34.0% of all reported crimes (200 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: East Cleveland 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how East Cleveland's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 East Cleveland, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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