CrimeMetric

Crime in Niles, Ohio

Major crime in Niles is 31% below the U.S. rate per resident: 48% lower for persons crimes and 27% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.1% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
69
31% below the U.S. rate
25% below the Ohio rate
down 8.1% in a year
Persons crimes
52
48% below the U.S. rate
37% below the Ohio rate
down 6.2% in a year
Property crimes
73
27% below the U.S. rate
23% below the Ohio rate
down 8.4% in a year
Social disorder
77
23% below the U.S. rate
18% below the Ohio rate
down 5.2% 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

Intimidation stands out most, at 1.6 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Niles 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 Niles

The middle half of Niles residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 35 and 79; the typical (median) resident's is 41. The citywide figure (69) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Niles, 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.
  • 0–5054.9%
  • 50–10025.5%
  • 100–20014.9%
  • 200–4004.7%
  • 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 weekdays, day and night

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm71
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am72
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm61
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am67
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.1% in a year; across Ohio it fell 7.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.1%OH -7.1%-17.0%OH -13.6%
Persons crimes-6.2%OH -7.1%-5.4%OH -3.7%
Property crimes-8.4%OH -7.1%-18.9%OH -15.6%
Social disorder-5.2%OH -6.1%-8.0%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

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

1,125 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Niles; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Troy, AL18,090164
Calverton, MD18,049145
Chubbuck, ID17,99986
Haslett, MI18,06470
Niles, OH18,02969
Dayton, NV18,04942

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

Nearby places

Niles has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Mineral Ridge (3 mi), is 11% below Niles's rate.

Youngstown8 mi162
Warren5 mi132
Girard3 mi78
Niles69
Hubbard10 mi60

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

Questions about crime in Niles

What are the most common crimes in Niles?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 112 a year), burglary (about 27 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 20 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 1.6 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. Niles's figures add up its 18 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Niles's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
  • 0.0% 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: 18,029. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100