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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Avon Lake, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Avon Lake, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Avon Lake. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Avon Lake, OH safe?
Avon Lake, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 72 out of 100, grade B, above the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 71% 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
- 72 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 71%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- <1%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 15
How Avon Lake compares
Avon Lake scores 19 points above the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Avon Lake 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 Avon Lake.
Neighborhoods inside Avon Lake
15 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Avon Lake, 15 of them mostly inside it. Among those 15, the lowest scores 40, the highest 88, and the middle 80% range from 45 to 88.
ZIP codes where Avon Lake residents live
Nearly all of Avon Lake's estimated residents live in ZIP 44012 (Safety Score 72, grade B). Nearly all of that ZIP's residents live in Avon Lake, but the city score uses only the neighborhoods inside the city limits. See the ZIP 44012 profile.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Avon Safety Score 79 · grade B · 3.7 miles
- Bay Village Safety Score 87 · grade A · 4.2 miles
- Westlake Safety Score 77 · grade B · 5.3 miles
- North Olmsted Safety Score 72 · grade B · 7.4 miles
- North Ridgeville Safety Score 77 · grade B · 7.5 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Avon Lake
Avon Lake has an estimated 26,342 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 11.1 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 15 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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