Crime in Canton, Ohio
Major crime in Canton is 3.3 times the U.S. rate per resident: 4.5 times for persons crimes and 3.0 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 5.4% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
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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Simple assault stands out most, at 7.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Canton for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Canton
The middle half of Canton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 183 and 400; the typical (median) resident's is 255. The citywide figure (326) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–504.7%
- 50–1006.4%
- 100–20020.5%
- 200–40042.7%
- 400+25.7%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 5.4% in a year; across Ohio it fell 7.1%
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.
Canton against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
1 of the 540 other places of this size has a higher major-crime index than Canton; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Canton has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Reedurban (3 mi), is 89% below Canton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Canton
What are the most common crimes in Canton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 1,533 a year), aggravated assault (about 723 a year) and burglary (about 594 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 7.1 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. Canton's figures add up its 63 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Canton's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 79.3% 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: 66,110. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Canton, Ohio." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/oh/canton
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Reedurban3 mi37
- North Canton4 mi80
- Perry Heights5 mi26
- Louisville7 mi59
- Greentown8 mi31
- Massillon8 mi111
- Uniontown10 mi15
- Green11 mi54