Kettering, OH has a A safety grade (83/100) with a violent crime rate of 42 per 100,000, 88% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 56,562 residents, Kettering is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against OH and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Kettering, OH carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 88% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kettering, OH shows violent crime at 42.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,501 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 88% 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 115.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 42.4 in 2024 (-63.1%). The highest observed value was 115.1 in 2020 and the lowest 42.4 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Kettering reported 24 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 56,562. 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 Kettering's 42.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mentor-on-the-Lake (42.4), West Jefferson (43.4), Beachwood (43.6), Norwalk (40.8). 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 42.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kettering ranks 284 of 340 — above 56 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -63.2% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 2.7% of the 873 Part I offenses reported in Kettering for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 7.9 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 counts dominate Kettering'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 24 reported violent incidents in a population of 56,562. 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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 18.7 Census sq mi, Kettering logged 45.4 property and 1.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Kettering's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 873 offenses; mix index 6,211).
Violent offenses are only 3% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Kettering offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (18.7 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 | 849 | 1501 |
| Larceny-Theft | 677 | 1196.9 |
| Burglary | 88 | 155.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 84 | 148.5 |
| Arson | 3 | 5.3 |
| Violent Crime | 24 | 42.4 |
| Rape | 10 | 17.7 |
| Robbery | 7 | 12.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 7 | 12.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 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 · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 54,715 | 115.1 | 1325 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 54,639 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 57,107 | 68.3 | 1418.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 56,633 | 95.4 | 1458.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 56,562 | 42.4 | 1501 |
Kettering Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Kettering's 873 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Kettering in population. Their populations run from 50,639 to 62,860, against 56,562 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Kettering sits at 42.4/100K violent (grade A); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Kettering at 42.4/100K violent and 1,501/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
42.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,501/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-55.6% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Kettering reported 24 violent crimes and 849 property crimes, for a total of 873 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Kettering's violent crime rate decreased by 55.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 2.9%.
The most common crime type in Kettering is larceny-theft, accounting for 77.5% of all reported crimes (677 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Kettering's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Kettering's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Kettering, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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