Gallipolis, OH has a D safety grade (27/100) with a violent crime rate of 428 per 100,000, 21% above the national average.

FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city

Gallipolis, OH Crime Rate & Safety

Gallipolis is a small municipal reporter (3,274 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with OH and U.S. context.

Data updated 2026-08-24

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D
Safety grade
3,634.7
Property / 100K
427.6
Violent / 100K
3K
Population

Gallipolis, OH carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 21% above the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Gallipolis, OH shows violent crime at 427.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,634.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 21% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.

  • D safety grade
  • 427.6/100K violent
  • 3634.7/100K property
  • +21% vs U.S.

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Gallipolis, OH

Small-count caution

The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable

Gallipolis reported 14 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,274. 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.

Position in the state cohort

Gallipolis reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Ohio cities

At 427.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Gallipolis ranks 32 of 340 — above 308 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +278.1% 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

The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher

Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 282.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 427.6 in 2024 (+51.6%). The highest observed value was 576.5 in 2022 and the lowest 226.4 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

Comparable rate records

Gallipolis's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Ohio cohort

The nearest comparable 2024 records to Gallipolis's 427.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Columbus (434.9), Butler Township (439.3), Marion (446.7), Lancaster (405.4). 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 counts dominate Gallipolis'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 14 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,274. 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.

Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.

Gallipolis's 2024 municipal footprint

Across 3.6 Census sq mi, Gallipolis logged 33.1 property and 3.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.

Gallipolis's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (80% of 133 offenses; mix index 6,485).

Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.

Gallipolis offense mix (2024)

Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.

Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)

Violent Crime Rate
-12.1%
486.6 → 427.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-8.1%
3953.8 → 3634.7/100K

Property offenses lead Gallipolis's 2024 record

Offense Count Rate /100K
Property Crime 119 3634.7
Larceny-Theft 106 3237.6
Burglary 10 305.4
Motor Vehicle Theft 3 91.6
Arson 0 0
Violent Crime 14 427.6
Aggravated Assault 11 336
Rape 2 61.1
Robbery 1 30.5
Murder 0 0

Gallipolis Crime Trend (2020-2024)

Gallipolis property crime rate trend

Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR

Property crime rate (2024)
3,634.7/100K 8.1% vs 2023
3,0004,0005,0006,0007,0008,0009,000 20202021202220232024 3,635

Gallipolis violent crime rate trend

Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR

Violent crime rate (2024)
427.6/100K 12.1% vs 2023
200300400500600 20202021202220232024 428
Year Coverage Population Violent Rate Property Rate
2020 Comparable 3,546 282 7980.8
2021 Comparable 3,534 226.4 4301.1
2022 Comparable 3,296 576.5 4156.6
2023 Comparable 3,288 486.6 3953.8
2024 Comparable 3,274 427.6 3634.7

How Gallipolis sits among OH peers

POP-SMALLCOHORT-SIZEVIOL-HIGHPROP-HIGHQUAD-HHGRADE-DNIBRSUCR-2024
Gallipolis vs. similar-size OH cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 9 cities; the anchor is ringed. Gallipolis vs. similar-size OH cities, violent vs. property crime 0 1,222 Violent crime per 100K → 395 3,925 Property crime per 100K → Gallipolis SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages

Gallipolis Police Department

Reporting agency for Gallipolis NIBRS-participating

Gallipolis Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Gallipolis's 133 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.

Similar-Size Cities in Ohio

Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Ohio cities closest to Gallipolis in population. Their populations run from 3,173 to 3,448, against 3,274 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.

Gallipolis's closest OH violent-rate matches

Gallipolis sits at 427.6/100K violent (grade D); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.

More about Gallipolis's 2024 record

How many crimes were reported in Gallipolis?

In 2024, Gallipolis reported 14 violent crimes and 119 property crimes, for a total of 133 reported offenses.

Is crime increasing or decreasing in Gallipolis?

From 2023 to 2024, Gallipolis's violent crime rate decreased by 12.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8.1%.

What is the most common crime in Gallipolis?

The most common crime type in Gallipolis is larceny-theft, accounting for 79.7% of all reported crimes (106 incidents in 2024).

Small-city read: Gallipolis is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.

Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.

Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.

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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Gallipolis, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.

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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Gallipolis is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (3,274 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.