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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Bedford, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Bedford, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Bedford. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Bedford, OH safe?
Bedford, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 46 out of 100, grade C, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 22% 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
- 46 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 22%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 49%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 10
How Bedford compares
Bedford scores 7 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Bedford lies in Cuyahoga County, which has a county Safety Score of 11, grade F.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Bedford.
Neighborhoods inside Bedford
10 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Bedford, 10 of them mostly inside it. Among those 10, the lowest scores 24, the highest 79, and the middle 80% range from 28 to 79.
ZIP codes where Bedford residents live
Nearly all of Bedford's estimated residents live in ZIP 44146 (Safety Score 48, grade C). An estimated 56% of that ZIP's residents live outside Bedford, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 44146 profile.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Bedford Heights Safety Score 43 · grade C · 1.7 miles
- Maple Heights Safety Score 33 · grade D · 1.7 miles
- Warrensville Heights Safety Score 28 · grade D · 3.2 miles
- Garfield Heights Safety Score 36 · grade D · 3.9 miles
- Solon Safety Score 84 · grade A · 5.2 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Bedford
Bedford has an estimated 12,834 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 5.3 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 10 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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