Crime in Parma, Ohio
Major crime in Parma is 44% below the U.S. rate per resident: 55% lower for persons crimes and 41% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 7.7% 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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Weapons violations stand out most, at 11% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Parma 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 Parma
The middle half of Parma residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 28 and 57; the typical (median) resident's is 38. The citywide figure (56) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5068.3%
- 50–10022.0%
- 100–2007.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+2.7%
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 rose 7.7% 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.
Parma against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
443 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Parma; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Parma 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, Parma Heights (2 mi), is 69% below Parma's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Parma
What are the most common crimes in Parma?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 266 a year), shoplifting (about 262 a year) and aggravated assault (about 77 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 11% 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. Parma's figures add up its 70 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Parma has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 2.3% 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: 78,672. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Parma, Ohio." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/oh/parma
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