CrimeMetric

Crime in Berea, Ohio

Major crime in Berea is 77% below the U.S. rate per resident: 83% lower for persons crimes and 75% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.8% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
24
77% below the U.S. rate
75% below the Ohio rate
down 7.8% in a year
Persons crimes
17
83% below the U.S. rate
79% below the Ohio rate
down 4.8% in a year
Property crimes
25
75% below the U.S. rate
74% below the Ohio rate
down 8.2% in a year
Social disorder
27
73% below the U.S. rate
71% below the Ohio rate
down 6.3% 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

Every crime type in Berea is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Berea 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 Berea

The middle half of Berea residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 14 and 31; the typical (median) resident's is 20. The citywide figure (24) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Berea, 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.
  • 0–5094.3%
  • 50–1005.7%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 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 6pm29
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am18
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm21
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am22
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.8% in a year; across Ohio it fell 7.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.8%OH -7.1%-17.8%OH -13.6%
Persons crimes-4.8%OH -7.1%-6.5%OH -3.7%
Property crimes-8.2%OH -7.1%-19.5%OH -15.6%
Social disorder-6.3%OH -6.1%-12.3%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

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

2,083 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Berea; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

White Oak, MD17,787149
Alice, TX17,815137
Wahiawa, HI17,819109
Trenton, MI17,82830
Seymour, TN17,80828
Berea, OH17,81524

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

Nearby places

Berea has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Middleburg Heights (3 mi), is 15% above Berea's rate.

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

Questions about crime in Berea

What are the most common crimes in Berea?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 33 a year), theft from vehicle (about 11 a year) and shoplifting (about 9 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 53% below 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. Berea's figures add up its 14 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Berea has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 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: 17,815. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100