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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Ashland, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Ashland, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Ashland. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Ashland, OH safe?
Ashland, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 39 out of 100, grade D, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 15% 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
- 39 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 15%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 50%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 25
How Ashland compares
Ashland scores 14 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Ashland lies in Ashland County, which has a county Safety Score of 59, grade C.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Ashland.
Neighborhoods inside Ashland
25 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Ashland, 15 of them mostly inside it. Among those 15, the lowest scores 9, the highest 78, and the middle 80% range from 15 to 60.
ZIP codes where Ashland residents live
Nearly all of Ashland's estimated residents live in ZIP 44805 (Safety Score 49, grade C). An estimated 53% of that ZIP's residents live outside Ashland, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 44805 profile.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Mansfield Safety Score 26 · grade D · 13 miles
- Wooster Safety Score 44 · grade C · 20 miles
- Galion Safety Score 44 · grade C · 26 miles
- Medina Safety Score 47 · grade C · 30 miles
- Norwalk Safety Score 37 · grade D · 30 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Ashland
Ashland has an estimated 18,770 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 11.3 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 25 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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