New Philadelphia, OH has a A safety grade (84/100) with a violent crime rate of 115 per 100,000, 67% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
New Philadelphia (17,362 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
New Philadelphia, OH carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 67% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, New Philadelphia, OH shows violent crime at 115.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 512.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 67% 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 40.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 115.2 in 2024 (+186.7%). The highest observed value was 115.2 in 2024 and the lowest 11.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
New Philadelphia reported 20 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 17,362. 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 New Philadelphia's 115.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Stow (115.4), Mentor (115.5), Bucyrus (113.1), Deer Park (113.0). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 18.3% of the 109 Part I offenses reported in New Philadelphia for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 7.8 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 115.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, New Philadelphia ranks 170 of 340 — above 170 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +1.9% 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 New Philadelphia'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 20 reported violent incidents in a population of 17,362. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 8.2 Census sq mi, New Philadelphia logged 10.9 property and 2.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
New Philadelphia's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 109 offenses; mix index 5,214).
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
New Philadelphia offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8.2 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 | 89 | 512.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 76 | 437.7 |
| Burglary | 11 | 63.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 11.5 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 20 | 115.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 17 | 97.9 |
| Rape | 2 | 11.5 |
| Robbery | 1 | 5.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 17,423 | 40.2 | 602.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 17,428 | 11.5 | 114.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 17,508 | 22.8 | 108.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 17,321 | 69.3 | 150.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 17,362 | 115.2 | 512.6 |
New Philadelphia Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind New Philadelphia's 109 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 New Philadelphia in population. Their populations run from 17,042 to 17,869, against 17,362 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
New Philadelphia sits at 115.2/100K violent (grade A); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
New Philadelphia at 115.2/100K violent and 512.6/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
115.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
512.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, New Philadelphia reported 20 violent crimes and 89 property crimes, for a total of 109 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, New Philadelphia's violent crime rate increased by 66.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 241.5%.
The most common crime type in New Philadelphia is larceny-theft, accounting for 69.7% of all reported crimes (76 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: New Philadelphia 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 New Philadelphia's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 New Philadelphia, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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