Crime in Portage Lakes, Ohio
Major crime in Portage Lakes is 10% above the U.S. rate per resident: 31% lower for persons crimes and 20% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 3.1% 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 2.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Portage Lakes 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 Portage Lakes
The middle half of Portage Lakes residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 52 and 80; the typical (median) resident's is 77. The citywide figure (110) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10083.6%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–40016.4%
- 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 rose 3.1% 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.
Portage Lakes against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
465 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Portage Lakes; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Portage Lakes has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Barberton (4 mi), is 18% above Portage Lakes's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Portage Lakes
What are the most common crimes in Portage Lakes?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 38 a year), shoplifting (about 35 a year) and aggravated assault (about 8 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 2.9 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. Portage Lakes's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Portage Lakes has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 16.4% 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: 5,362. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Portage Lakes, Ohio." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/oh/portage-lakes
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Barberton4 mi130
- New Franklin4 mi31
- Green4 mi54
- Akron5 mi185
- Norton6 mi97
- Uniontown7 mi15
- Mogadore7 mi84
- Canal Fulton8 mi34