5 Most dangerous cities in Ohio (FBI data)

Written by Ricky Nave in Real Estate

These are the 5 most dangerous cities in Ohio. The ranking is based on a weighted average of violent and property crimes (violent being weighted 5 times higher) from the FBI’s UCR statistics from 2019.

#5 Moraine

Moraine, OH

Moraine is an inner suburb town of Dayton with a population of about 6,500. It has a violent crime rate of 6.4 per 1000 residents (11th highest) and a property crime rate of 80 per 1000 residents (3rd highest). Much of the city is carved up by highways, train tracks, and the Great Miami River, and what’s left includes the county garbage dump facility and a recycling facility. The town’s borders also wrap around 3 sides of a landfill.

#4 Cleveland

Cleveland, OH

While Cleveland was once the 5th largest city in the U.S. (in 1920), its population has been declining since 1950. Interestingly, that means the city peaked some 10-30 years before manufacturing really started shifting overseas. As of last year (2021), the population was at just under 368,000 and is still declining.

The violent crime rate in Cleveland is higher than any other city in Ohio (15.2 per 1000 people).

#3 Canton

Canton, OH

Canton has a population of about 70,000 people. It has the second highest violent crime rate (14 crimes per 1000 residents) and the 8th highest property crime rate (53 crimes per 1000 residents).

#2 New Boston

New Boston, OH

This small town of just 2093 people sits right along the Kentucky border and consists almost entirely of a train yard and a highway.

#1 Fairfax

Fairfax, OH

Fairfax is a small suburb city of Cincinnati. The violent crime is not bad, but more than 1 in 5 residents will be the victim of a property crime each year — the highest by far of any city in the state!

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Ricky Nave

In college, Ricky studied physics & math, won a prestigious research competition hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, started several small businesses including an energy chewing gum business and a computer repair business, and graduated with a thesis in algebraic topology. After graduating, Ricky attended grad school at Duke University in the mathematics PhD program where he worked on quantum algorithms & non-Euclidean geometry models for flexible proteins. He also worked in cybersecurity at Los Alamos during this time before eventually dropping out of grad school to join a startup working on formal semantic modeling for legal documents. Finally, he left that startup to start his own in the finance & crypto space. Now, he helps entrepreneurs pay less capital gains tax.

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