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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Bellefontaine, OH

Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Bellefontaine, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.

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City Safety Score 32/100 Grade D Modeled estimate · 0 to 100, higher is safer
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Is Bellefontaine, OH safe?

Bellefontaine, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 32 out of 100, grade D, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 12% 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
32 / 100
Residents in A or B neighborhoods
12%
Residents in D or F neighborhoods
60%
Scored neighborhoods
14

How Bellefontaine compares

Bellefontaine scores 21 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.

Bellefontaine lies in Logan County, which has a county Safety Score of 70, grade B.

County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Bellefontaine.

Neighborhoods inside Bellefontaine

14 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Bellefontaine, 7 of them mostly inside it. Among those 7, the lowest scores 4, the highest 73, and the middle 80% range from 6 to 55.

Safety Score, 0–100 · shaded band: 10th–90th percentiles · whiskers: lowest and highest

Bellefontaine

A 0% · B 12% · C 28% · D 38% · F 22%

Ohio

A 25% · B 20% · C 20% · D 19% · F 16%

Estimated share of residents living in neighborhoods of each grade, in Bellefontaine and across Ohio.

ZIP codes where Bellefontaine residents live

Nearly all of Bellefontaine's estimated residents live in ZIP 43311 (Safety Score 45, grade C). An estimated 52% of that ZIP's residents live outside Bellefontaine, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 43311 profile.

Closest cities in Ohio

  1. Urbana Safety Score 44 · grade C · 17 miles
  2. Marysville Safety Score 36 · grade D · 22 miles
  3. Sidney Safety Score 40 · grade C · 22 miles
  4. Springfield Safety Score 31 · grade D · 30 miles
  5. Piqua Safety Score 31 · grade D · 30 miles

Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.

About Bellefontaine

Bellefontaine has an estimated 14,100 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 10 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 14 scored Census block groups that lie at least partly within those limits.

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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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Scores as of

Safety Scores compare areas on a 0–100 scale; higher is safer. Scores are modeled estimates, not official crime rates or reported incident counts.

City scores combine the scored neighborhoods that lie at least partly within city limits, weighted by their estimated residents inside the limits. They are not an average of the ZIP scores listed for a city.

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