Wadsworth, OH has a A safety grade (78/100) with a violent crime rate of 136 per 100,000, 61% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Wadsworth (24,925 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
Wadsworth, OH carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 61% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Wadsworth, OH shows violent crime at 136.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 974.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 61% 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 69.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 136.4 in 2024 (+95.2%). The highest observed value was 150.7 in 2022 and the lowest 69.9 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Wadsworth's 136.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Cadiz (135.6), Archbold (135.6), Crestline (135.2), Pickerington (134.8). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 95.5% of reported property offenses in Wadsworth, against a cohort median of 83.9%. The remainder is burglary (10) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 136.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Wadsworth ranks 139 of 340 — above 201 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +20.6% 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 counts dominate Wadsworth'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 11.5 Census sq mi, Wadsworth logged 21.2 property and 3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Wadsworth's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (84% of 277 offenses; mix index 7,090).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Wadsworth offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (11.5 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 | 243 | 974.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 232 | 930.8 |
| Burglary | 10 | 40.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 4 |
| Arson | 1 | 4 |
| Violent Crime | 34 | 136.4 |
| Rape | 17 | 68.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 13 | 52.2 |
| Robbery | 4 | 16 |
| Murder | 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 | 24,324 | 69.9 | 1286.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 24,656 | 146 | 1261.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 24,546 | 150.7 | 1006.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 24,757 | 137.3 | 884.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 24,925 | 136.4 | 974.9 |
Wadsworth Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Wadsworth's 277 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 Wadsworth in population. Their populations run from 24,261 to 25,827, against 24,925 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Wadsworth sits at 136.4/100K violent (grade A); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Wadsworth at 136.4/100K violent and 974.9/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
136.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
974.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Wadsworth reported 34 violent crimes and 243 property crimes, for a total of 277 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Wadsworth's violent crime rate decreased by 0.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 10.2%.
The most common crime type in Wadsworth is larceny-theft, accounting for 83.8% of all reported crimes (232 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Wadsworth 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 Wadsworth's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Wadsworth, 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. Wadsworth is scored in the mid-size municipal band (24,925 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.