Jackson Township, Stark County, OH has a B safety grade (62/100) with a violent crime rate of 212 per 100,000, 40% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Jackson Township, Stark County, OH Crime Rate & Safety
Jackson Township, Stark County (42,924 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then OH and national benchmarks.
Jackson Township, Stark County, OH carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 40% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Jackson Township, Stark County, OH shows violent crime at 212 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,968.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 40% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
212/100K violent
1968.6/100K property
-40% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Jackson Township, Stark County, OH
Comparable rate records
Jackson Township, Stark County's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Ohio cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Jackson Township, Stark County's 212.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Sheffield Lake (211.8), Yellow Springs (214.9), Hebron (208.1), South Euclid (207.0). 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
Jackson Township, Stark County sits mid-pack among comparable Ohio cities
At 212.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Jackson Township, Stark County ranks 90 of 340 — above 250 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +87.5% 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 Jackson Township, Stark County'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.
Jackson Township, Stark County's 2024 municipal footprint
Jackson Township, Stark County's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (79% of 936 offenses; mix index 6,407).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
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.
Property offenses lead Jackson Township, Stark County's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs OH
Property Crime
845
1968.6
1545.4
Larceny-Theft
743
1731
-
Burglary
62
144.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
40
93.2
-
Arson
2
4.7
-
Violent Crime
91
212
292.8
Aggravated Assault
56
130.5
-
Rape
24
55.9
-
Robbery
11
25.6
-
Murder
0
0
-
How Jackson Township, Stark County sits among OH peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Similar-Size Cities in Ohio
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Ohio cities closest to Jackson Township, Stark County in population. Their populations run from 41,277 to 45,600, against 42,924 here. Or use our
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Out-of-state peers for Jackson Township, Stark County
Jackson Township, Stark County at 212/100K violent and 1,968.6/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
Jackson Township, Stark County violent rate vs peers
More about Jackson Township, Stark County's 2024 record
How many crimes were reported in Jackson Township, Stark County?
In 2024, Jackson Township, Stark County reported 91 violent crimes and 845 property crimes, for a total of 936 reported offenses.
What is the most common crime in Jackson Township, Stark County?
The most common crime type in Jackson Township, Stark County is larceny-theft, accounting for 79.4% of all reported crimes (743 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Jackson Township, Stark County 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 Jackson Township, Stark County, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.