Elmwood Place, OH has a F safety grade (3/100) with a violent crime rate of 1614 per 100,000, 358% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Elmwood Place's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,045). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to OH and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Elmwood Place, OH carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 358% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Elmwood Place, OH shows violent crime at 1,613.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,129.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 358% 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 498.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1613.7 in 2024 (+223.8%). The highest observed value was 1613.7 in 2024 and the lowest 97.5 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 1613.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Elmwood Place ranks 1 of 340 — above 339 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +1326.9% 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 34.0% of the 97 Part I offenses reported in Elmwood Place for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 23.4 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 Elmwood Place's 1613.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Cleveland (1561.1), 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 65.6% of reported property offenses in Elmwood Place, against a cohort median of 84.0%. The remainder is burglary (9) and motor vehicle theft (13). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Elmwood Place'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 small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 0.3 Census sq mi, Elmwood Place logged 198.1 property and 102.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Elmwood Place leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,887.
Violent offenses are 34% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Elmwood Place offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.3 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 | 64 | 3129.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 42 | 2053.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 13 | 635.7 |
| Burglary | 9 | 440.1 |
| Arson | 1 | 48.9 |
| Violent Crime | 33 | 1613.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 26 | 1271.4 |
| Robbery | 4 | 195.6 |
| Rape | 3 | 146.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2022 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,207 | 498.4 | 181.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,203 | 227 | 907.9 |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 2,052 | - | - |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,043 | 489.5 | 2006.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,045 | 1613.7 | 3129.6 |
Elmwood Place Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Elmwood Place's 97 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 Elmwood Place in population. Their populations run from 1,804 to 2,292, against 2,045 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Elmwood Place sits at 1,613.7/100K violent (grade F); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Elmwood Place reported 33 violent crimes and 64 property crimes, for a total of 97 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Elmwood Place's violent crime rate increased by 229.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 55.9%.
The most common crime type in Elmwood Place is larceny-theft, accounting for 43.3% of all reported crimes (42 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Elmwood Place's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Elmwood Place's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Elmwood Place, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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