Westlake, OH has a A+ safety grade (91/100) with a violent crime rate of 29 per 100,000, 92% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Westlake (34,189 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
Westlake, OH carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 92% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Westlake, OH shows violent crime at 29.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 649.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 92% 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
Westlake reported 10 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 34,189. 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 29.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Westlake ranks 302 of 340 — above 38 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -74.6% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Westlake's 29.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Parma Heights (29.3), Hartville (29.4), Paulding (28.4), Upper Arlington (28.2). 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.
2022–2024 direction
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 41.5 per 100,000 in 2022 to 29.2 in 2024 (-29.5%). The highest observed value was 44.2 in 2023 and the lowest 29.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 4.3% of the 232 Part I offenses reported in Westlake for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 6.3 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 Westlake'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 10 reported violent incidents in a population of 34,189. 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 15.9 Census sq mi, Westlake logged 13.9 property and 0.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Westlake's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (86% of 232 offenses; mix index 7,492).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Westlake offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (15.9 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 | 222 | 649.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 200 | 585 |
| Burglary | 15 | 43.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 20.5 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 10 | 29.2 |
| Rape | 5 | 14.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 5 | 14.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2020, 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2022-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Insufficient reporting | 31,938 | - | - |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 32,035 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 33,734 | 41.5 | 418 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 33,909 | 44.2 | 545.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 34,189 | 29.2 | 649.3 |
Westlake Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Westlake's 232 reported offenses (3-year span 2022-2024).
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 Westlake in population. Their populations run from 33,791 to 35,410, against 34,189 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Westlake sits at 29.2/100K violent (grade A+); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Westlake at 29.2/100K violent and 649.3/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
29.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
649.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Westlake reported 10 violent crimes and 222 property crimes, for a total of 232 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Westlake's violent crime rate decreased by 33.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 19%.
The most common crime type in Westlake is larceny-theft, accounting for 86.2% of all reported crimes (200 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Westlake 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 Westlake's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Westlake, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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