Plain City, OH has a A+ safety grade (97/100) with a violent crime rate of 23 per 100,000, 94% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Plain City is a small municipal reporter (4,406 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with OH and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Plain City, 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, Plain City, OH shows violent crime at 22.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 113.5 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
Plain City reported 1 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,406. 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 22.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Plain City ranks 309 of 340 — above 31 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -80.3% 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 Plain City's 22.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Berea (22.4), Rocky River (23.5), American Township (24.1), Ottawa Hills (20.9). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 43.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 22.7 in 2024 (-47.5%). The highest observed value was 64.5 in 2022 and the lowest 20.7 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 16.7% of the 6 Part I offenses reported in Plain City for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 6.1 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.
Property counts dominate Plain City'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 4,406. 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 3.1 Census sq mi, Plain City logged 1.6 property and 0.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Plain City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 6 offenses; mix index 5,000).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Plain City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.1 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 | 5 | 113.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 4 | 90.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 22.7 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 1 | 22.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 22.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 4,628 | 43.2 | 86.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,820 | 20.7 | 124.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,651 | 64.5 | 86 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,427 | 22.6 | 203.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,406 | 22.7 | 113.5 |
Plain City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Plain City's 6 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 Plain City in population. Their populations run from 4,219 to 4,607, against 4,406 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Plain City reported 1 violent crimes and 5 property crimes, for a total of 6 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Plain City's violent crime rate increased by 0.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 44.2%.
The most common crime type in Plain City is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.7% of all reported crimes (4 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Plain City 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 Plain City's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Plain City, 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. Plain City is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (4,406 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.