Crime in Yellow Springs, Ohio
Major crime in Yellow Springs is 31% below the U.S. rate per resident: 65% lower for persons crimes and 23% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.4% 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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Murder stands out most, at 2.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Yellow Springs 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
Neighborhoods in Yellow Springs
Yellow Springs is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 41; the middle half of residents live where it is between 30 and 46.
- 0–5088.1%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–40011.9%
- 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 and on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.4% 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.
Yellow Springs against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
698 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Yellow Springs; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Yellow Springs has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Enon (5 mi), is 63% below Yellow Springs's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Yellow Springs
What are the most common crimes in Yellow Springs?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 21 a year), burglary (about 7 a year) and shoplifting (about 6 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 2.1 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. Yellow Springs's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Yellow Springs 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: 3,596. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Yellow Springs, Ohio." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/oh/yellow-springs
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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