Sheffield Lake, OH has a A safety grade (75/100) with a violent crime rate of 212 per 100,000, 40% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Sheffield Lake is a small municipal reporter (8,969 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with OH and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Sheffield Lake, OH carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 40% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sheffield Lake, OH shows violent crime at 211.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 446 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 40% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 22.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 211.8 in 2024 (+841.8%). The highest observed value was 211.8 in 2024 and the lowest 11.2 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Sheffield Lake reported 19 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 8,969. 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 32.2% of the 59 Part I offenses reported in Sheffield Lake for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 21.6 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Sheffield Lake's 211.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Jackson Township, Stark County (212.0), Yellow Springs (214.9), Hebron (208.1), South Euclid (207.0). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 211.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sheffield Lake ranks 91 of 340 — above 249 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +87.3% against the cohort median of 113.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 72.5% of reported property offenses in Sheffield Lake, against a cohort median of 84.0%. The remainder is burglary (9) 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 Sheffield Lake'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 19 reported violent incidents in a population of 8,969. 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 2.5 Census sq mi, Sheffield Lake logged 16.1 property and 7.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Sheffield Lake leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,697.
Violent offenses are 32% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Sheffield Lake offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.5 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 | 40 | 446 |
| Larceny-Theft | 29 | 323.3 |
| Burglary | 9 | 100.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 22.3 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 19 | 211.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 19 | 211.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2022 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 · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,892 | 22.5 | 776 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,930 | 112 | 571.1 |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 8,968 | - | - |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,929 | 179.2 | 828.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,969 | 211.8 | 446 |
Sheffield Lake Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sheffield Lake's 59 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Sheffield Lake in population. Their populations run from 8,571 to 9,303, against 8,969 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Sheffield Lake sits at 211.8/100K violent (grade A); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Sheffield Lake reported 19 violent crimes and 40 property crimes, for a total of 59 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Sheffield Lake's violent crime rate increased by 18.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 46.2%.
The most common crime type in Sheffield Lake is larceny-theft, accounting for 49.2% of all reported crimes (29 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Sheffield Lake 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 Sheffield Lake's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Sheffield Lake, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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