Hilliard, OH has a A safety grade (80/100) with a violent crime rate of 121 per 100,000, 66% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Hilliard (37,305 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
Hilliard, OH carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 66% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hilliard, OH shows violent crime at 120.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 930.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 66% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 74.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 120.6 in 2024 (+61.9%). The highest observed value was 150.1 in 2022 and the lowest 74.5 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hilliard's 120.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bexley (120.6), Eaton (120.9), Steubenville (122.0), Parma (119.0). 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 120.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hilliard ranks 164 of 340 — above 176 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +6.7% 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.
Property counts dominate Hilliard'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 14.2 Census sq mi, Hilliard logged 24.4 property and 3.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hilliard's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 392 offenses; mix index 4,999).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Hilliard offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (14.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 347 | 930.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 270 | 723.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 42 | 112.6 |
| Burglary | 35 | 93.8 |
| Arson | 4 | 10.7 |
| Violent Crime | 45 | 120.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 27 | 72.4 |
| Rape | 12 | 32.2 |
| Robbery | 6 | 16.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 37,585 | 74.5 | 718.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 37,776 | 90 | 929.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 36,644 | 150.1 | 996.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 37,500 | 109.3 | 1170.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 37,305 | 120.6 | 930.2 |
Hilliard Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hilliard's 392 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 Hilliard in population. Their populations run from 34,979 to 39,587, against 37,305 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Hilliard sits at 120.6/100K violent (grade A); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Hilliard at 120.6/100K violent and 930.2/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
120.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
930.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+10.3% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Hilliard reported 45 violent crimes and 347 property crimes, for a total of 392 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Hilliard's violent crime rate increased by 10.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 20.5%.
The most common crime type in Hilliard is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.9% of all reported crimes (270 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hilliard 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 Hilliard's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hilliard, 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. Hilliard is scored in the mid-size municipal band (37,305 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.