CrimeMetric

Crime in Ashland, Ohio

Major crime in Ashland is 43% below the U.S. rate per resident: 53% lower for persons crimes and 41% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.4% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
57
43% below the U.S. rate
38% below the Ohio rate
down 7.4% in a year
Persons crimes
47
53% below the U.S. rate
43% below the Ohio rate
down 5.6% in a year
Property crimes
59
41% below the U.S. rate
37% below the Ohio rate
down 7.7% in a year
Social disorder
91
10% below the U.S. rate
about the Ohio rate
down 6.0% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

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Crime by type

Intimidation stands out most, at 2.4 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Ashland for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Ashland

The middle half of Ashland residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 37 and 67; the typical (median) resident's is 46. The citywide figure (57) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Ashland, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5051.0%
  • 50–10045.4%
  • 100–2001.9%
  • 200–4001.7%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm73
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am43
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm53
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am46
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.4% in a year; across Ohio it fell 7.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.4%OH -7.1%-16.5%OH -13.6%
Persons crimes-5.6%OH -7.1%-4.0%OH -3.7%
Property crimes-7.7%OH -7.1%-18.7%OH -15.6%
Social disorder-6.0%OH -6.1%-9.9%OH -7.0%

Change in expected crimes, with Ohio as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.

Similar-size places

Ashland against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,337 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Ashland; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Ashland has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Mansfield (13 mi), is 2.6 times Ashland's rate.

Mansfield13 mi149
Ontario16 mi127
Shelby18 mi73
Wooster21 mi63
Ashland57
New London16 mi47
Lodi20 mi38
Wellington21 mi32
Lexington20 mi20

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Ashland

What are the most common crimes in Ashland?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 106 a year), aggravated assault (about 17 a year) and shoplifting (about 15 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 2.4 times the U.S. rate per resident.

How we calculated this

Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Ashland's figures add up its 19 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Ashland's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
  • 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
  • Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
  • Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
  • Residents: 17,929. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Ashland, Ohio." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/oh/ashland

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100