Ohio's comparable FBI window (2014–2024, 11 years) splits: one major offense rate rose while the other fell — the lead series is the larger |endpoint %| move.
Split-window verdict
Ohio's violent crime rate rose 9.9% from 2014 to 2024; its property crime rate fell 37.7%. A single combined label would hide that split, so the evidence below keeps the two series separate.
Full-window endpoints
Violent crime moved from 266.4 to 292.8 per 100,000 (+9.9%). Property crime moved from 2479.5 to 1545.4 (-37.7%). These are endpoint comparisons, not proof that every intervening year followed the same direction.
Recent direction check
From 2021 to 2024, the violent-crime rate fell 5.1%, compared with +9.9% across the full 2014-2024 window. That difference is why the latest few observations should be read separately from the decade-scale endpoints.
Latest national comparison
For 2024, the state rate was 292.8 per 100,000 versus 352.0 across the state records in this dataset, a gap of 16.8% below. This is a state-level benchmark, not a neighborhood-safety conclusion.
Peak and trough
The highest observed violent-crime rate was 308.5 in 2021; the lowest was 266.4 in 2014. The latest value lies 63% of the way from that low to that peak, which shows whether the endpoint is close to an extreme or near the middle of the observed range.
Year-to-year movement
The largest annual change ran from 2015 to 2016: +8.9%. Across the full sequence, 2 year-to-year steps rose by more than 1% and 3 fell by more than 1%. A single sharp step can reflect participation or reporting changes as well as a real change in recorded offenses.
Ohio's property rate fell 10.1% (-229.2 per 100K) from 2017 to 2018 (2274.8 → 2045.6) — the sharpest comparable year-to-year step in this window. The largest move the other way was jumped 8.3% from 2021 to 2022 (1603.2 → 1735.8).
Ohio's property gap vs the US aggregate moved from 1.7% below in 2014 to 9.7% below in 2024 (-8.0 pp).
| Year | Coverage | Population | Property | Rate | YoY | Violent | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Comparable | 11,883,304 | 183,645 | 1545.4 | ↓ 8.8% | 34,794 | 292.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 11,785,935 | 199,780 | 1695.1 | ↓ 2.3% | 35,036 | 297.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 11,756,058 | 204,063 | 1735.8 | ↑ 8.3% | 34,894 | 296.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 11,780,017 | 188,854 | 1603.2 | ↓ 7.9% | 36,339 | 308.5 |
| 2020 | Comparable | 11,693,217 | 203,633 | 1741.5 | ↓ 8.5% | 35,785 | 306 |
| 2019 | Comparable | 11,689,100 | 222,386 | 1902.5 | ↓ 7.0% | 33,656 | 287.9 |
| 2018 | Comparable | 11,689,442 | 239,119 | 2045.6 | ↓ 10.1% | 33,588 | 287.3 |
| 2017 | Comparable | 11,658,609 | 265,215 | 2274.8 | ↓ 5.3% | 33,488 | 287.2 |
| 2016 | Comparable | 11,614,373 | 279,017 | 2402.3 | ↑ 1.1% | 33,891 | 291.8 |
| 2015 | Comparable | 11,613,423 | 275,838 | 2375.2 | ↓ 4.2% | 31,110 | 267.9 |
| 2014 | Comparable | 11,594,163 | 287,472 | 2479.5 | - | 30,886 | 266.4 |
More in Ohio: overview, safest cities, most dangerous, compare. Methodology — FBI UCR / Crime Data Explorer rates per 100,000 for Ohio (2014–2024); Census population where FBI denominators are missing.