West Chester Township, OH has a A safety grade (76/100) with a violent crime rate of 96 per 100,000, 73% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
West Chester Township, OH Crime Rate & Safety
At 63,335 residents, West Chester Township is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against OH and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
West Chester Township, OH carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 73% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, West Chester Township, OH shows violent crime at 96.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,632.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 73% 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.
A safety grade
96.3/100K violent
1632.6/100K property
-73% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for West Chester Township, OH
Comparable rate records
West Chester Township's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Ohio cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to West Chester Township's 96.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are New Albany (96.3), Shawnee Township (96.5), Athens (95.6), Uniontown (97.0). 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 5.6% of the 1,095 Part I offenses reported in West Chester Township for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 5.0 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.
Position in the state cohort
West Chester Township sits mid-pack among comparable Ohio cities
At 96.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, West Chester Township ranks 199 of 340 — above 141 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -16.4% against the cohort median of 115.2. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 105.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 96.3 in 2024 (-8.5%). The highest observed value was 129.7 in 2021 and the lowest 82.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate West Chester Township'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
West Chester Township's 2024 municipal footprint
West Chester Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 1,095 offenses; mix index 6,302).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
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.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+16.4%
82.7 → 96.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
+14.3%
1428.6 → 1632.6/100K
Property offenses lead West Chester Township's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs OH
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,034
1632.6
1545.4
1711
Larceny-Theft
859
1356.3
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
93
146.8
-
-
Burglary
82
129.5
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
61
96.3
292.8
352
Aggravated Assault
46
72.6
-
-
Rape
14
22.1
-
-
Murder
1
1.6
-
-
Robbery
0
0
-
-
West Chester Township Crime Trend (2020-2024)
West Chester Township property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
West Chester Township Police Department
Reporting agency for West Chester Township NIBRS-participating
West Chester Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind West Chester Township's 1,095 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Ohio
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West Chester Township at 96.3/100K violent and 1,632.6/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in West Chester Township?
In 2024, West Chester Township reported 61 violent crimes and 1,034 property crimes, for a total of 1,095 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in West Chester Township?
From 2023 to 2024, West Chester Township's violent crime rate increased by 16.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 14.3%.
What is the most common crime in West Chester Township?
The most common crime type in West Chester Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.4% of all reported crimes (859 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: West Chester Township's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 West Chester Township, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.