CrimeMetric

Crime in Willoughby, Ohio

Major crime in Willoughby is 49% below the U.S. rate per resident: 68% lower for persons crimes and 44% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.3% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
52
49% below the U.S. rate
44% below the Ohio rate
down 7.3% in a year
Persons crimes
32
68% below the U.S. rate
61% below the Ohio rate
down 4.8% in a year
Property crimes
56
44% below the U.S. rate
41% below the Ohio rate
down 7.6% in a year
Social disorder
66
34% below the U.S. rate
29% below the Ohio rate
down 5.4% 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

Every crime type in Willoughby is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Willoughby 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 Willoughby

The middle half of Willoughby residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 30 and 54; the typical (median) resident's is 39. The citywide figure (52) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Willoughby, 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.
  • 0–5072.8%
  • 50–10021.8%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4005.4%
  • 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 weekday daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm66
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am41
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm51
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am35
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.3% in a year; across Ohio it fell 7.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.3%OH -7.1%-13.0%OH -13.6%
Persons crimes-4.8%OH -7.1%-1.0%OH -3.7%
Property crimes-7.6%OH -7.1%-14.5%OH -15.6%
Social disorder-5.4%OH -6.1%-5.7%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

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

1,454 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Willoughby; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Alton, IL24,304204
Suitland, MD24,276142
Arlington, WA24,331124
Emporia, KS24,237116
Duncan, OK24,299109
Willoughby, OH24,27752
De Pere, WI24,35826

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

Nearby places

Willoughby 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, Eastlake (1 mi), is 2.2 times Willoughby's rate.

Eastlake1 mi111
Euclid7 mi91
Mentor5 mi62
Wickliffe4 mi56
Willoughby52
Kirtland4 mi19

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

Questions about crime in Willoughby

What are the most common crimes in Willoughby?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 120 a year), shoplifting (about 29 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 23 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: about 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. Willoughby's figures add up its 14 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Willoughby 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: 24,277. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100