Lawrence Township, OH has a A+ safety grade (93/100) with a violent crime rate of 49 per 100,000, 86% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Lawrence Township is a small municipal reporter (8,193 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with OH and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Lawrence Township, OH carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 86% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lawrence Township, OH shows violent crime at 48.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 268.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 86% 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.
Small-count caution
Lawrence Township reported 4 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 8,193. 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 Lawrence Township's 48.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hinckley Township (48.9), Vienna Township (49.4), Batavia (49.7), Poland Township (49.9). 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 48.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lawrence Township ranks 275 of 340 — above 65 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -57.6% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 60.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 48.8 in 2024 (-19.2%). The highest observed value was 146.7 in 2022 and the lowest 48.3 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 15.4% of the 26 Part I offenses reported in Lawrence Township for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 4.8 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 Lawrence Township'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 4 reported violent incidents in a population of 8,193. 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.
Lawrence Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 26 offenses; mix index 4,689).
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Lawrence Township offense mix (2024)
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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 22 | 268.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 17 | 207.5 |
| Burglary | 4 | 48.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 12.2 |
| Arson | 1 | 12.2 |
| Violent Crime | 4 | 48.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 36.6 |
| Rape | 1 | 12.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,278 | 60.4 | 712.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,275 | 48.3 | 447.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,179 | 146.7 | 574.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,188 | 85.5 | 561.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,193 | 48.8 | 268.5 |
Lawrence Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lawrence Township's 26 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 Lawrence Township in population. Their populations run from 8,005 to 8,571, against 8,193 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lawrence Township sits at 48.8/100K violent (grade A+); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Lawrence Township reported 4 violent crimes and 22 property crimes, for a total of 26 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lawrence Township's violent crime rate decreased by 42.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 52.2%.
The most common crime type in Lawrence Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.4% of all reported crimes (17 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Lawrence Township 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.
Small-city rate methodology for how Lawrence Township's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lawrence Township, 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. Lawrence Township is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (8,193 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.