Newburgh Heights, OH has a C safety grade (59/100) with a violent crime rate of 388 per 100,000, 10% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Newburgh Heights's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,804). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to OH and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Newburgh Heights, OH carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 10% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Newburgh Heights, OH shows violent crime at 388 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 277.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 10% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 58.3% of the 12 Part I offenses reported in Newburgh Heights for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 47.7 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
Newburgh Heights reported 7 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,804. 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 388.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Newburgh Heights ranks 34 of 340 — above 306 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +243.1% 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 Newburgh Heights's 388.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Sandusky (387.8), Greenhills (385.7), Lancaster (405.4), West Carrollton (351.6). 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.
Violent counts are the sharper signal on Newburgh Heights's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. 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 7 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,804. 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 small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 0.6 Census sq mi, Newburgh Heights logged 8.6 property and 12 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Newburgh Heights's 2024 book concentrates in aggravated assault (58% of 12 offenses; mix index 4,583).
Violent offenses are 58% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
Newburgh Heights offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 7 | 388 |
| Aggravated Assault | 7 | 388 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 5 | 277.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 4 | 221.7 |
| Burglary | 1 | 55.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 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 | 2,036 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,016 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,808 | 0 | 110.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,803 | 221.9 | 443.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,804 | 388 | 277.2 |
Newburgh Heights Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Newburgh Heights's 12 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 Newburgh Heights in population. Their populations run from 1,633 to 1,993, against 1,804 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Newburgh Heights reported 7 violent crimes and 5 property crimes, for a total of 12 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Newburgh Heights's violent crime rate increased by 74.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 37.5%.
The most common crime type in Newburgh Heights is aggravated assault, accounting for 58.3% of all reported crimes (7 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Newburgh Heights's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Newburgh Heights's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Newburgh Heights, 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. Newburgh Heights is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (1,804 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.