Youngstown, OH has a F safety grade (7/100) with a violent crime rate of 688 per 100,000, 96% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 58,850 residents, Youngstown 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.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Youngstown, OH carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 96% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Youngstown, OH shows violent crime at 688.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,752.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 96% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F 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 147.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 688.2 in 2024 (+368.2%). The highest observed value was 769.6 in 2021 and the lowest 147.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 688.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Youngstown ranks 17 of 340 — above 323 of the 339 other Ohio cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +508.5% 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 Youngstown's 688.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Trotwood (698.8), Woodlawn (700.8), Portsmouth (715.0), Uhrichsville (624.8). 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 62.2% of reported property offenses in Youngstown, against a cohort median of 84.0%. The remainder is burglary (333) and motor vehicle theft (280). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 20.0% of the 2,025 Part I offenses reported in Youngstown for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Ohio cities — a gap of 9.4 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 Youngstown'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.
Across 33.9 Census sq mi, Youngstown logged 47.7 property and 11.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Youngstown leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,187.
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Youngstown offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (33.9 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 | 1,620 | 2752.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,007 | 1711.1 |
| Burglary | 333 | 565.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 280 | 475.8 |
| Arson | 17 | 28.9 |
| Violent Crime | 405 | 688.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 316 | 537 |
| Robbery | 53 | 90.1 |
| Rape | 25 | 42.5 |
| Murder | 11 | 18.7 |
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 | 65,316 | 147 | 613.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 63,538 | 769.6 | 2485.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 59,944 | 685.6 | 2907.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 58,773 | 677.2 | 3207.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 58,850 | 688.2 | 2752.8 |
Youngstown Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Youngstown's 2,025 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 Youngstown in population. Their populations run from 53,263 to 65,374, against 58,850 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Youngstown sits at 688.2/100K violent (grade F); the Ohio cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Youngstown at 688.2/100K violent and 2,752.8/100K property - matched below outside Ohio (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
688.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,752.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+1.6% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Youngstown reported 405 violent crimes and 1,620 property crimes, for a total of 2,025 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Youngstown's violent crime rate increased by 1.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 14.2%.
The most common crime type in Youngstown is larceny-theft, accounting for 49.7% of all reported crimes (1,007 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Youngstown'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.
Large-city rate methodology for how Youngstown's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Youngstown, OH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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