Village of Leesburg, OH has a C safety grade (59/100) with a violent crime rate of 312 per 100,000, 12% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Village of Leesburg's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,284). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to OH and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Village of Leesburg, OH carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 12% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Village of Leesburg, OH shows violent crime at 311.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,168.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 12% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C 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 75.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 311.5 in 2024 (+312.5%). The highest observed value was 311.5 in 2024 and the lowest 75.5 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Village of Leesburg reported 4 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,284. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Village of Leesburg's 311.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Sidney (311.4), Hamilton (313.4), Findlay (314.3), Massillon (316.3). 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 311.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Village of Leesburg ranks 48 of 340 — above 292 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +175.5% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 21.1% of the 19 Part I offenses reported in Village of Leesburg for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 10.5 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 73.3% of reported property offenses in Village of Leesburg, against a cohort median of 84.0%. The remainder is burglary (4) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Village of Leesburg'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 4 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,284. 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.
Village of Leesburg's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (58% of 19 offenses; mix index 4,238).
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Village of Leesburg 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 | 15 | 1168.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 11 | 856.7 |
| Burglary | 4 | 311.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 4 | 311.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 4 | 311.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 1,324 | 75.5 | 1435 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,322 | 302.6 | 1285.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,269 | 157.6 | 1260.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,271 | 78.7 | 865.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,284 | 311.5 | 1168.2 |
Village of Leesburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Village of Leesburg's 19 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 Village of Leesburg in population. Their populations run from 1,182 to 1,633, against 1,284 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Village of Leesburg reported 4 violent crimes and 15 property crimes, for a total of 19 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Village of Leesburg's violent crime rate increased by 295.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 35%.
The most common crime type in Village of Leesburg is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.9% of all reported crimes (11 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Village of Leesburg'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 Village of Leesburg's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Village of Leesburg, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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