Sharon Township, OH has a A+ safety grade (97/100) with a violent crime rate of 0 per 100,000, .
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Sharon Township's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,292). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to OH and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Sharon Township, OH FBI UCR crime rates and PlainCrime safety grade
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sharon Township, OH shows violent crime at 0 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 305.4 per 100,000. 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
Sharon Township reported 0 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,292. 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 0.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sharon Township ranks 322 of 340 — above 0 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -100.0% 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 Sharon Township's 0.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bainbridge Township (0.0), Bellville (0.0), Brewster (0.0), Bridgeport (0.0). 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 0.0% of the 7 Part I offenses reported in Sharon Township for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 10.6 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 71.4% of reported property offenses in Sharon Township, against a cohort median of 84.0%. The remainder is burglary (0) 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 Sharon Township'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 0 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,292. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Sharon Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 7 offenses; mix index 5,918).
Violent offenses are only 0% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Sharon Township offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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 | 7 | 305.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 5 | 218.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 87.3 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 0 | 0 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 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 | 2,406 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,402 | 41.6 | 416.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,331 | 42.9 | 643.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,310 | 0 | 432.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,292 | 0 | 305.4 |
Sharon Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sharon Township's 7 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 Sharon Township in population. Their populations run from 1,993 to 2,516, against 2,292 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Sharon Township reported 0 violent crimes and 7 property crimes, for a total of 7 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Sharon Township's violent crime rate data is unavailable, and the property crime rate decreased by 29.5%.
The most common crime type in Sharon Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.4% of all reported crimes (5 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Sharon Township's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Sharon Township's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Sharon Township, 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. Sharon Township is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (2,292 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.