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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Elyria, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Elyria, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Elyria. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Elyria, OH safe?
Elyria, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 39 out of 100, grade D, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 14% 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
- 39 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 14%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 49%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 45
How Elyria compares
Elyria scores 14 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Elyria 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 Elyria.
Neighborhoods inside Elyria
45 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Elyria, 36 of them mostly inside it. Among those 36, the lowest scores 1, the highest 69, and the middle 80% range from 7 to 69.
ZIP codes where Elyria residents live
Nearly all of Elyria's estimated residents live in ZIP 44035 (Safety Score 43, grade C). An estimated 23% of that ZIP's residents live outside Elyria, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 44035 profile.
Closest cities in Ohio
- North Ridgeville Safety Score 77 · grade B · 4.5 miles
- Avon Safety Score 79 · grade B · 6.3 miles
- Lorain Safety Score 27 · grade D · 6.4 miles
- Amherst Safety Score 82 · grade A · 6.9 miles
- Avon Lake Safety Score 72 · grade B · 9.8 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Elyria
Elyria has an estimated 53,604 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 20.5 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 45 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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