Crime in Hamilton, Ohio
Major crime in Hamilton is 23% above the U.S. rate per resident: 5% higher for persons crimes and 27% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 18.4% 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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Intimidation stands out most, at 4.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Hamilton 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 Hamilton
The middle half of Hamilton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 60 and 161; the typical (median) resident's is 89. The citywide figure (123) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5012.4%
- 50–10042.2%
- 100–20033.0%
- 200–4009.7%
- 400+2.6%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 18.4% 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.
Hamilton against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
157 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Hamilton; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Hamilton 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, Fairfield (5 mi), is 23% below Hamilton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Hamilton
What are the most common crimes in Hamilton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 574 a year), shoplifting (about 195 a year) and burglary (about 152 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 4.2 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. Hamilton's figures add up its 60 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Hamilton has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 26.1% 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: 64,963. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Hamilton, Ohio." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/oh/hamilton
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Fairfield5 mi95
- Pleasant Run Farm7 mi52
- Beckett Ridge8 mi53
- Forest Park8 mi78
- Trenton8 mi32
- Springdale8 mi151
- Mount Healthy Heights9 mi78
- New Burlington9 mi49