Forest Park, OH has a C safety grade (57/100) with a violent crime rate of 284 per 100,000, 19% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Forest Park (19,730 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
Forest Park, OH carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 19% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Forest Park, OH shows violent crime at 283.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,687.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 19% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Forest Park's 283.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Struthers (283.5), Newark (282.1), Wooster (285.5), Bratenahl (286.5). 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 283.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Forest Park ranks 58 of 340 — above 282 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +151.0% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 231.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 283.8 in 2024 (+22.6%). The highest observed value was 363.2 in 2022 and the lowest 231.5 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 70.6% of reported property offenses in Forest Park, against a cohort median of 84.0%. The remainder is burglary (8) and motor vehicle theft (90). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 14.4% of the 389 Part I offenses reported in Forest Park for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 3.8 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 counts dominate Forest Park'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 6.4 Census sq mi, Forest Park logged 51.6 property and 8.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Forest Park's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 389 offenses; mix index 4,283).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Forest Park offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.4 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 | 333 | 1687.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 235 | 1191.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 90 | 456.2 |
| Burglary | 8 | 40.5 |
| Arson | 1 | 5.1 |
| Violent Crime | 56 | 283.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 35 | 177.4 |
| Rape | 11 | 55.8 |
| Robbery | 9 | 45.6 |
| Murder | 1 | 5.1 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 18,571 | 231.5 | 1900.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 18,518 | 270 | 1755 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 19,824 | 363.2 | 1942.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 19,735 | 258.4 | 1971.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 19,730 | 283.8 | 1687.8 |
Forest Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Forest Park's 389 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 Forest Park in population. Their populations run from 19,500 to 19,792, against 19,730 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Forest Park sits at 283.8/100K violent (grade C); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Forest Park at 283.8/100K violent and 1,687.8/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
283.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,687.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Forest Park reported 56 violent crimes and 333 property crimes, for a total of 389 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Forest Park's violent crime rate increased by 9.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 14.4%.
The most common crime type in Forest Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.4% of all reported crimes (235 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Forest Park 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 Forest Park's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Forest Park, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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