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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Amherst, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Amherst, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Amherst. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Amherst, OH safe?
Amherst, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 82 out of 100, grade A, above the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 100% of its residents live in neighborhoods graded A or B, compared with 45% statewide. Safety Scores are modeled estimates, not official crime rates.
- Safety Score
- 82 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 100%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- <1%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 9
How Amherst compares
Amherst scores 29 points above the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Amherst lies in Lorain County, which has a county Safety Score of 49, grade C.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Amherst.
Neighborhoods inside Amherst
9 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Amherst, 5 of them mostly inside it. Among those 5, the lowest scores 69, the highest 88, and the middle 80% range from 69 to 88.
ZIP codes where Amherst residents live
Nearly all of Amherst's estimated residents live in ZIP 44001 (Safety Score 79, grade B). An estimated 45% of that ZIP's residents live outside Amherst, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 44001 profile.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Lorain Safety Score 27 · grade D · 4.0 miles
- Vermilion Safety Score 64 · grade B · 5.7 miles
- Elyria Safety Score 39 · grade D · 6.9 miles
- Avon Safety Score 79 · grade B · 11 miles
- North Ridgeville Safety Score 77 · grade B · 11 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Amherst
Amherst has an estimated 13,048 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 7.1 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 9 scored Census block groups that lie at least partly within those limits.
How this page is built
ZIP codes are listed by the estimated share of the city's residents who live in them, from 2020 Census block-group population spread evenly over each block group's land. The city score is not an average of ZIP scores.
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