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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Bowling Green, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Bowling Green, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Bowling Green. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Bowling Green, OH safe?
Bowling Green, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 25 out of 100, grade D, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 17% 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
- 25 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 17%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 78%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 23
How Bowling Green compares
Bowling Green scores 28 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Bowling Green lies in Wood 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 Bowling Green.
Neighborhoods inside Bowling Green
23 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Bowling Green, 18 of them mostly inside it. Among those 18, the lowest scores 0, the highest 90, and the middle 80% range from 2 to 90.
ZIP codes where Bowling Green residents live
Listed by the estimated share of Bowling Green's residents who live in each ZIP code. A ZIP score covers the whole ZIP, including any part outside the city.
Higher scores indicate safer modeled conditions. Scored areas are Census block groups, not a coverage percentage.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Perrysburg Safety Score 75 · grade B · 12 miles
- Maumee Safety Score 72 · grade B · 14 miles
- Fostoria Safety Score 36 · grade D · 19 miles
- Toledo Safety Score 36 · grade D · 20 miles
- Oregon Safety Score 74 · grade B · 21 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Bowling Green
Bowling Green has an estimated 30,463 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 12.8 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 23 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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