Garfield Heights, OH carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 32% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Garfield Heights, OH shows violent crime at 464.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,870.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 32% 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
464.1/100K violent
1870.1/100K property
+32% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Garfield Heights, OH
Position in the state cohort
Garfield Heights reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Ohio cities
At 464.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Garfield Heights ranks 28 of 340 — above 312 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +310.3% 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.
Comparable rate records
Garfield Heights's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Ohio cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Garfield Heights's 464.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mount Healthy (470.0), Springdale (477.6), Reynoldsburg (479.7), Marion (446.7). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 722.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 464.1 in 2024 (-35.7%). The highest observed value was 722.1 in 2020 and the lowest 464.1 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 19.9% of the 674 Part I offenses reported in Garfield Heights for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 9.3 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-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 66.9% of reported property offenses in Garfield Heights, against a cohort median of 84.0%. The remainder is burglary (83) and motor vehicle theft (96). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Garfield Heights'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.
Garfield Heights's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 7.2 Census sq mi, Garfield Heights logged 74.7 property and 18.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Garfield Heights leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,429.
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.2 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
-10.1%
516 → 464.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-1.6%
1901.1 → 1870.1/100K
Property offenses lead Garfield Heights's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs OH
Property Crime
540
1870.1
1545.4
Larceny-Theft
361
1250.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
96
332.5
-
Burglary
83
287.4
-
Arson
5
17.3
-
Violent Crime
134
464.1
292.8
Aggravated Assault
92
318.6
-
Robbery
24
83.1
-
Rape
16
55.4
-
Murder
2
6.9
-
Garfield Heights Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Garfield Heights property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Garfield Heights Police Department
Reporting agency for Garfield Heights NIBRS-participating
Garfield Heights Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Garfield Heights's 674 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
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How many crimes were reported in Garfield Heights?
In 2024, Garfield Heights reported 134 violent crimes and 540 property crimes, for a total of 674 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Garfield Heights?
From 2023 to 2024, Garfield Heights's violent crime rate decreased by 10.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 1.6%.
What is the most common crime in Garfield Heights?
The most common crime type in Garfield Heights is larceny-theft, accounting for 53.6% of all reported crimes (361 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Garfield Heights 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Garfield Heights, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.