Ottawa Hills, OH has a A+ safety grade (91/100) with a violent crime rate of 21 per 100,000, 94% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Ottawa Hills is a small municipal reporter (4,781 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with OH and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Ottawa Hills, OH carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 94% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ottawa Hills, OH shows violent crime at 20.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 753 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 94% 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
Ottawa Hills reported 1 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,781. 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 20.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ottawa Hills ranks 311 of 340 — above 29 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -81.8% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Ottawa Hills's 20.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Powell (20.6), Mayfield Heights (20.2), Whitehouse (19.7), Berea (22.4). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 47.2% of reported property offenses in Ottawa Hills, against a cohort median of 84.0%. The remainder is burglary (9) and motor vehicle theft (10). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 2.7% of the 37 Part I offenses reported in Ottawa Hills 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 22.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 20.9 in 2024 (-6.1%). The highest observed value was 44.0 in 2021 and the lowest 0.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Ottawa Hills'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 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 4,781. 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 1.9 Census sq mi, Ottawa Hills logged 19.1 property and 0.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Ottawa Hills leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,440.
Violent offenses are only 3% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Ottawa Hills offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.9 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 | 36 | 753 |
| Larceny-Theft | 17 | 355.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 10 | 209.2 |
| Burglary | 9 | 188.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 1 | 20.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 20.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 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 | 4,491 | 22.3 | 846.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,541 | 44 | 660.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,816 | 0 | 913.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,793 | 41.7 | 646.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,781 | 20.9 | 753 |
Ottawa Hills Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Ottawa Hills's 37 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 Ottawa Hills in population. Their populations run from 4,492 to 5,082, against 4,781 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Ottawa Hills sits at 20.9/100K violent (grade A+); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Ottawa Hills reported 1 violent crimes and 36 property crimes, for a total of 37 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Ottawa Hills's violent crime rate decreased by 49.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 16.4%.
The most common crime type in Ottawa Hills is larceny-theft, accounting for 45.9% of all reported crimes (17 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Ottawa Hills 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 Ottawa Hills's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Ottawa Hills, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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