Crime in Garfield Heights, Ohio
Major crime in Garfield Heights is about the U.S. rate per resident: 35% higher for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.0% 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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Intimidation stands out most, at 2.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Garfield Heights 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 Garfield Heights
The middle half of Garfield Heights residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 65 and 123; the typical (median) resident's is 90.
- 0–509.4%
- 50–10055.8%
- 100–20028.5%
- 200–4006.3%
- 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 13.0% 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.
Garfield Heights against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
292 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Garfield Heights; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Garfield Heights has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Maple Heights (2 mi), is 62% below Garfield Heights's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Garfield Heights
What are the most common crimes in Garfield Heights?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 186 a year), aggravated assault (about 84 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 66 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 2.5 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. Garfield Heights's figures add up its 30 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Garfield Heights's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 20.2% 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: 28,750. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Garfield Heights, Ohio." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/oh/garfield-heights
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