Rocky River, OH has a A+ safety grade (94/100) with a violent crime rate of 24 per 100,000, 93% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Rocky River (21,256 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
Rocky River, OH carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 93% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Rocky River, OH shows violent crime at 23.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 418.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 93% 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
Rocky River reported 5 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 21,256. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 55.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 23.5 in 2024 (-57.3%). The highest observed value was 79.8 in 2022 and the lowest 23.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 23.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Rocky River ranks 308 of 340 — above 32 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -79.6% 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 Rocky River's 23.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are American Township (24.1), Plain City (22.7), Berea (22.4), 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 5.3% of the 94 Part I offenses reported in Rocky River for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 5.3 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 95.5% of reported property offenses in Rocky River, against a cohort median of 83.9%. The remainder is burglary (2) and motor vehicle theft (2). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Rocky River'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 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 21,256. 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 4.7 Census sq mi, Rocky River logged 18.8 property and 1.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Rocky River's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (90% of 94 offenses; mix index 8,205).
Violent offenses are only 5% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Rocky River offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.7 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 | 89 | 418.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 85 | 399.9 |
| Burglary | 2 | 9.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 9.4 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 5 | 23.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 4 | 18.8 |
| Rape | 1 | 4.7 |
| Murder | 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 | 19,951 | 55.1 | 275.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 20,007 | 45 | 429.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 21,309 | 79.8 | 727.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 21,247 | 47.1 | 508.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 21,256 | 23.5 | 418.7 |
Rocky River Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Rocky River's 94 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 Rocky River in population. Their populations run from 20,230 to 21,985, against 21,256 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Rocky River sits at 23.5/100K violent (grade A+); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Rocky River at 23.5/100K violent and 418.7/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
23.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
418.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Rocky River reported 5 violent crimes and 89 property crimes, for a total of 94 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Rocky River's violent crime rate decreased by 50.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 17.6%.
The most common crime type in Rocky River is larceny-theft, accounting for 90.4% of all reported crimes (85 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Rocky River 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 Rocky River's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Rocky River, 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. Rocky River is scored in the mid-size municipal band (21,256 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.