Franklin Township, OH has a A safety grade (81/100) with a violent crime rate of 107 per 100,000, 70% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Franklin Township (10,301 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
Franklin Township, OH carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 70% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Franklin Township, OH shows violent crime at 106.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 902.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 70% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2021–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 10.3 per 100,000 in 2021 to 106.8 in 2024 (+940.2%). The highest observed value was 231.1 in 2023 and the lowest 0.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Franklin Township reported 11 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 10,301. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Franklin Township's 106.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bellefontaine (106.7), Orrville (107.0), Willoughby (107.2), Belpre (106.4). 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 55.9% of reported property offenses in Franklin Township, against a cohort median of 84.0%. The remainder is burglary (14) and motor vehicle theft (27). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 106.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Franklin Township ranks 183 of 340 — above 157 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -7.3% against the cohort median of 115.2. 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 Franklin Township'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.
Based on 11 reported violent incidents in a population of 10,301. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Franklin Township leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,403.
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Franklin Township offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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 | 93 | 902.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 52 | 504.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 27 | 262.1 |
| Burglary | 14 | 135.9 |
| Arson | 3 | 29.1 |
| Violent Crime | 11 | 106.8 |
| Robbery | 5 | 48.5 |
| Rape | 3 | 29.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 29.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2020 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 · 2021-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Insufficient reporting | 9,768 | - | - |
| 2021 | Comparable | 9,741 | 10.3 | 123.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,484 | 0 | 114.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 10,383 | 231.1 | 1377.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 10,301 | 106.8 | 902.8 |
Franklin Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Franklin Township's 104 reported offenses (4-year span 2021-2024).
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 Franklin Township in population. Their populations run from 9,932 to 10,723, against 10,301 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Franklin Township sits at 106.8/100K violent (grade A); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Franklin Township at 106.8/100K violent and 902.8/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
106.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
902.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Franklin Township reported 11 violent crimes and 93 property crimes, for a total of 104 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Franklin Township's violent crime rate decreased by 53.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 34.5%.
The most common crime type in Franklin Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.0% of all reported crimes (52 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Franklin Township 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 Franklin Township's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Franklin Township, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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