Parma Heights, OH has a A+ safety grade (94/100) with a violent crime rate of 29 per 100,000, 92% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Parma Heights (20,484 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
Parma Heights, OH carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 92% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Parma Heights, OH shows violent crime at 29.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 332 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 92% 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
Parma Heights reported 6 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 20,484. 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 29.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Parma Heights ranks 301 of 340 — above 39 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -74.6% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Parma Heights's 29.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Westlake (29.2), Hartville (29.4), Paulding (28.4), Upper Arlington (28.2). 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.
2021–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 20.3 per 100,000 in 2021 to 29.3 in 2024 (+44.0%). The highest observed value was 39.5 in 2023 and the lowest 20.3 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 66.2% of reported property offenses in Parma Heights, against a cohort median of 84.0%. The remainder is burglary (11) and motor vehicle theft (12). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Parma Heights'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 6 reported violent incidents in a population of 20,484. 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 4.2 Census sq mi, Parma Heights logged 16.2 property and 1.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Parma Heights's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 74 offenses; mix index 4,249).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Parma Heights offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.2 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 | 68 | 332 |
| Larceny-Theft | 45 | 219.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 12 | 58.6 |
| Burglary | 11 | 53.7 |
| Arson | 1 | 4.9 |
| Violent Crime | 6 | 29.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 6 | 29.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2020 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2021-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Insufficient reporting | 19,679 | - | - |
| 2021 | Comparable | 19,669 | 20.3 | 371.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 20,306 | 24.6 | 389 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 20,268 | 39.5 | 276.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 20,484 | 29.3 | 332 |
Parma Heights Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Parma Heights's 74 reported offenses (4-year span 2021-2024).
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 Parma Heights in population. Their populations run from 19,730 to 21,255, against 20,484 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Parma Heights sits at 29.3/100K violent (grade A+); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Parma Heights at 29.3/100K violent and 332/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
29.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
332/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Parma Heights reported 6 violent crimes and 68 property crimes, for a total of 74 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Parma Heights's violent crime rate decreased by 25.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 20.2%.
The most common crime type in Parma Heights is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.8% of all reported crimes (45 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Parma Heights 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 Parma Heights's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Parma Heights, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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