West Carrollton, OH has a C safety grade (51/100) with a violent crime rate of 352 per 100,000, 0% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
West Carrollton (12,798 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
West Carrollton, OH carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 0% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, West Carrollton, OH shows violent crime at 351.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,648.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 0% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 351.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, West Carrollton ranks 37 of 340 — above 303 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +210.9% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to West Carrollton's 351.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Martins Ferry (348.6), Port Clinton (338.7), Zanesville (333.2), Weathersfield (324.8). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 249.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 351.6 in 2024 (+41.0%). The highest observed value was 412.7 in 2023 and the lowest 223.9 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 65.9% of reported property offenses in West Carrollton, against a cohort median of 84.0%. The remainder is burglary (32) and motor vehicle theft (40). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 17.6% of the 256 Part I offenses reported in West Carrollton for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 7.0 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 counts dominate West Carrollton'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 6.4 Census sq mi, West Carrollton logged 32.8 property and 7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
West Carrollton leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,539.
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
West Carrollton offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.4 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 | 211 | 1648.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 139 | 1086.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 40 | 312.5 |
| Burglary | 32 | 250 |
| Arson | 2 | 15.6 |
| Violent Crime | 45 | 351.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 34 | 265.7 |
| Rape | 9 | 70.3 |
| Robbery | 2 | 15.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 12,833 | 249.4 | 1613 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 12,821 | 312 | 2207.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,951 | 223.9 | 1806.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 12,843 | 412.7 | 2258 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,798 | 351.6 | 1648.7 |
West Carrollton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind West Carrollton's 256 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 West Carrollton in population. Their populations run from 12,600 to 13,098, against 12,798 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
West Carrollton sits at 351.6/100K violent (grade C); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
West Carrollton at 351.6/100K violent and 1,648.7/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
351.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,648.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, West Carrollton reported 45 violent crimes and 211 property crimes, for a total of 256 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, West Carrollton's violent crime rate decreased by 14.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 27%.
The most common crime type in West Carrollton is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.3% of all reported crimes (139 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: West Carrollton 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 West Carrollton's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 West Carrollton, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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