Powell, OH has a A+ safety grade (90/100) with a violent crime rate of 21 per 100,000, 94% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Powell (14,572 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
Powell, 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, Powell, OH shows violent crime at 20.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 899 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
Powell reported 3 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 14,572. 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 20.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Powell ranks 312 of 340 — above 28 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -82.1% 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 Powell's 20.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Ottawa Hills (20.9), Mayfield Heights (20.2), Whitehouse (19.7), Avon Lake (19.1). 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 2.2% of the 134 Part I offenses reported in Powell for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 8.4 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 Powell'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 3 reported violent incidents in a population of 14,572. 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 5.8 Census sq mi, Powell logged 22.5 property and 0.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Powell's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (87% of 134 offenses; mix index 7,684).
Violent offenses are only 2% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Powell offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.8 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 | 131 | 899 |
| Larceny-Theft | 117 | 802.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 8 | 54.9 |
| Burglary | 6 | 41.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 3 | 20.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 20.6 |
| 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 | 13,593 | 0 | 573.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 13,591 | 66.2 | 654.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 14,407 | 41.6 | 631.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 14,463 | 20.7 | 691.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 14,572 | 20.6 | 899 |
Powell Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Powell's 134 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 Powell in population. Their populations run from 14,061 to 14,854, against 14,572 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Powell sits at 20.6/100K violent (grade A+); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Powell at 20.6/100K violent and 899/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
20.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
899/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Powell reported 3 violent crimes and 131 property crimes, for a total of 134 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Powell's violent crime rate decreased by 0.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 30%.
The most common crime type in Powell is larceny-theft, accounting for 87.3% of all reported crimes (117 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Powell 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 Powell's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Powell, 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. Powell is scored in the mid-size municipal band (14,572 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.