Crime in Forest Park, Ohio
Major crime in Forest Park is 22% below the U.S. rate per resident: 17% lower for persons crimes and 23% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.9% 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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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 28% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Forest Park 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 Forest Park
The middle half of Forest Park residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 34 and 95; the typical (median) resident's is 75.
- 0–5036.7%
- 50–10038.8%
- 100–20020.9%
- 200–4003.6%
- 400+0.0%
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 fell 8.9% 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.
Forest Park against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
988 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Forest Park; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Forest Park 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, Greenhills (1 mi), is 25% below Forest Park's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Forest Park
What are the most common crimes in Forest Park?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 83 a year), theft from vehicle (about 44 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 34 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 28% above 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. Forest Park's figures add up its 16 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Forest Park's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 24.2% 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: 19,066. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Forest Park, Ohio." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/oh/forest-park
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Greenhills1 mi58
- Pleasant Run Farm2 mi52
- New Burlington2 mi49
- Springdale2 mi151
- Mount Healthy Heights3 mi78
- Fairfield3 mi95
- Woodlawn3 mi179
- Mount Healthy4 mi154