Washington Court House, OH has a A safety grade (75/100) with a violent crime rate of 153 per 100,000, 57% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Washington Court House (14,403 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
Washington Court House, OH carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 57% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Washington Court House, OH shows violent crime at 152.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,152.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 57% 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
Washington Court House reported 22 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 14,403. 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 Washington Court House's 152.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Reading (152.9), Upper Sandusky (150.8), Dover (154.8), Ontario (150.4). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 270.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 152.7 in 2024 (-43.4%). The highest observed value was 270.0 in 2020 and the lowest 151.8 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 152.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Washington Court House ranks 128 of 340 — above 212 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +35.1% 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 Washington Court House'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 22 reported violent incidents in a population of 14,403. 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 9 Census sq mi, Washington Court House logged 18.4 property and 2.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Washington Court House's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 188 offenses; mix index 4,985).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Washington Court House offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9 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 | 166 | 1152.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 128 | 888.7 |
| Burglary | 30 | 208.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 8 | 55.5 |
| Arson | 4 | 27.8 |
| Violent Crime | 22 | 152.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 15 | 104.1 |
| Rape | 5 | 34.7 |
| Robbery | 2 | 13.9 |
| Murder | 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 | 14,076 | 270 | 2678.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 14,189 | 190.3 | 2311.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 14,494 | 151.8 | 1883.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 14,383 | 166.9 | 1328 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 14,403 | 152.7 | 1152.5 |
Washington Court House Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Washington Court House's 188 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 Washington Court House in population. Their populations run from 14,045 to 14,623, against 14,403 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Washington Court House sits at 152.7/100K violent (grade A); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Washington Court House at 152.7/100K violent and 1,152.5/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
152.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,152.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Washington Court House reported 22 violent crimes and 166 property crimes, for a total of 188 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Washington Court House's violent crime rate decreased by 8.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 13.2%.
The most common crime type in Washington Court House is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.1% of all reported crimes (128 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Washington Court House 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 Washington Court House's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Washington Court House, 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. Washington Court House is scored in the mid-size municipal band (14,403 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.