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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Athens, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Athens, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Athens. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Athens, OH safe?
Athens, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 12 out of 100, grade F, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 1% 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
- 12 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 1%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 94%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 17
How Athens compares
Athens scores 41 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Athens lies in Athens County, which has a county Safety Score of 29, grade D.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Athens.
Neighborhoods inside Athens
17 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Athens, 11 of them mostly inside it. Among those 11, the lowest scores 0, the highest 59, and the middle 80% range from 2 to 20.
ZIP codes where Athens residents live
Nearly all of Athens's estimated residents live in ZIP 45701 (Safety Score 30, grade D). An estimated 40% of that ZIP's residents live outside Athens, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 45701 profile.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Marietta Safety Score 23 · grade D · 35 miles
- Lancaster Safety Score 34 · grade D · 38 miles
- Zanesville Safety Score 27 · grade D · 43 miles
- Chillicothe Safety Score 29 · grade D · 48 miles
- Circleville Safety Score 36 · grade D · 49 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Athens
Athens has an estimated 24,824 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 9.9 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 17 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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