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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Defiance, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Defiance, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
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Is Defiance, OH safe?
Defiance, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 40 out of 100, grade C, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 31% 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
- 40 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 31%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 61%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 21
How Defiance compares
Defiance scores 13 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Defiance lies in Defiance County, which has a county Safety Score of 83, grade A.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Defiance.
Neighborhoods inside Defiance
21 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Defiance, 12 of them mostly inside it. Among those 12, the lowest scores 6, the highest 92, and the middle 80% range from 9 to 72.
ZIP codes where Defiance residents live
Nearly all of Defiance's estimated residents live in ZIP 43512 (Safety Score 50, grade C). An estimated 57% of that ZIP's residents live outside Defiance, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 43512 profile.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Van Wert Safety Score 31 · grade D · 31 miles
- Bowling Green Safety Score 25 · grade D · 38 miles
- Lima Safety Score 28 · grade D · 39 miles
- Findlay Safety Score 42 · grade C · 41 miles
- Perrysburg Safety Score 75 · grade B · 42 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Defiance
Defiance has an estimated 17,180 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 12.7 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 21 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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