Crime in Westerville, Ohio
Major crime in Westerville is 11% below the U.S. rate per resident: 50% lower for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.8% 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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Other larceny stands out most, at 29% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Westerville 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 Westerville
The middle half of Westerville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 31 and 115; the typical (median) resident's is 52. The citywide figure (89) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5047.5%
- 50–10027.1%
- 100–20014.0%
- 200–4009.7%
- 400+1.7%
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 fell 7.8% 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.
Westerville against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
391 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Westerville; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Westerville has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Huber Ridge (2 mi), is 49% below Westerville's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Westerville
What are the most common crimes in Westerville?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 246 a year), theft from vehicle (about 123 a year) and shoplifting (about 101 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 29% 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. Westerville's figures add up its 26 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Westerville'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: 38,404. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Westerville, Ohio." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/oh/westerville
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Huber Ridge2 mi46
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