Martins Ferry, OH has a B safety grade (62/100) with a violent crime rate of 349 per 100,000, 1% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Martins Ferry is a small municipal reporter (6,024 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with OH and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Martins Ferry, OH carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 1% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Martins Ferry, OH shows violent crime at 348.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 398.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 1% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 154.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 348.6 in 2024 (+125.7%). The highest observed value was 443.1 in 2023 and the lowest 154.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 46.7% of the 45 Part I offenses reported in Martins Ferry for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 36.1 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.
Small-count caution
Martins Ferry reported 21 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 6,024. 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 348.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Martins Ferry ranks 38 of 340 — above 302 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +208.2% 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Martins Ferry's 348.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are West Carrollton (351.6), Port Clinton (338.7), Zanesville (333.2), Weathersfield (324.8). 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.
Martins Ferry's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 21 reported violent incidents in a population of 6,024. 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.
Across 2.3 Census sq mi, Martins Ferry logged 10.3 property and 9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Martins Ferry leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,812.
Violent offenses are 47% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Martins Ferry offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.3 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 | 24 | 398.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 20 | 332 |
| Burglary | 2 | 33.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 33.2 |
| Arson | 1 | 16.6 |
| Violent Crime | 21 | 348.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 19 | 315.4 |
| Murder | 1 | 16.6 |
| Rape | 1 | 16.6 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 6,475 | 154.4 | 957.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 6,380 | 219.4 | 658.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 6,171 | 291.7 | 632 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 6,094 | 443.1 | 475.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 6,024 | 348.6 | 398.4 |
Martins Ferry Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Martins Ferry's 45 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 Martins Ferry in population. Their populations run from 5,742 to 6,190, against 6,024 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Martins Ferry sits at 348.6/100K violent (grade B); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Martins Ferry reported 21 violent crimes and 24 property crimes, for a total of 45 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Martins Ferry's violent crime rate decreased by 21.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.3%.
The most common crime type in Martins Ferry is larceny-theft, accounting for 44.4% of all reported crimes (20 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Martins Ferry 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 Martins Ferry's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Martins Ferry, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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