Crime in Painesville, Ohio
Major crime in Painesville is 60% below the U.S. rate per resident: 30% lower for persons crimes and 67% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.4% 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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Simple assault stands out most, at 1.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Painesville 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 Painesville
The middle half of Painesville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 24 and 47; the typical (median) resident's is 39.
- 0–5082.0%
- 50–10015.9%
- 100–2002.2%
- 200–4000.0%
- 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 weekdays, day and night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.4% 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.
Painesville against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,724 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Painesville; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Painesville 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, Fairport Harbor (2 mi), is 35% below Painesville's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Painesville
What are the most common crimes in Painesville?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 46 a year), aggravated assault (about 37 a year) and burglary (about 19 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 1.5 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. Painesville's figures add up its 15 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Painesville has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 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: 20,655. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Painesville, Ohio." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/oh/painesville
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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