CrimeMetric

Crime in Dent, Ohio

Major crime in Dent is 13% below the U.S. rate per resident: 69% lower for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 6.6% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
87
13% below the U.S. rate
5% below the Ohio rate
up 6.6% in a year
Persons crimes
31
69% below the U.S. rate
62% below the Ohio rate
down 13.2% in a year
Property crimes
100
about the U.S. rate
6% above the Ohio rate
up 8.3% in a year
Social disorder
32
68% below the U.S. rate
66% below the Ohio rate
down 6.4% 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

Shoplifting stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Dent 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 Dent

The middle half of Dent residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 31 and 60; the typical (median) resident's is 45. The citywide figure (87) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Dent, 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.
  • 0–5070.0%
  • 50–1009.6%
  • 100–2009.9%
  • 200–40010.5%
  • 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 6pm110
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am63
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm103
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am58
Trend and outlook

Major crime rose 6.6% in a year; across Ohio it fell 7.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime+6.6%OH -7.1%-14.1%OH -13.6%
Persons crimes-13.2%OH -7.1%-3.0%OH -3.7%
Property crimes+8.3%OH -7.1%-14.9%OH -15.6%
Social disorder-6.4%OH -6.1%-8.7%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

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

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

Henderson, NC14,407275
Dent, OH14,39487
Buda, TX14,40881
Somerton, AZ14,38522

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

Nearby places

Dent has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Monfort Heights (3 mi), is about Dent's rate.

Northgate5 mi284
Cheviot4 mi170
Groesbeck4 mi167
Covedale5 mi132
Bridgetown3 mi128
Dent87
White Oak3 mi73
Mack3 mi45

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

Questions about crime in Dent

What are the most common crimes in Dent?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 80 a year), other larceny (about 66 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 33 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 1.7 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. Dent's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Dent has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 9.9% 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: 14,394. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100