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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Fostoria, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Fostoria, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Fostoria. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Fostoria, OH safe?
Fostoria, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 36 out of 100, grade D, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 13% 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
- 36 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 13%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 59%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 15
How Fostoria compares
Fostoria scores 17 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Fostoria's estimated residents live in 3 counties:
- Seneca County 79% of residents · county Safety Score 58, grade C
- Hancock County 18% of residents · county Safety Score 70, grade B
- Wood County 3% of residents · county Safety Score 59, grade C
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Fostoria.
Neighborhoods inside Fostoria
15 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Fostoria, 9 of them mostly inside it. Among those 9, the lowest scores 6, the highest 67, and the middle 80% range from 17 to 53.
ZIP codes where Fostoria residents live
Nearly all of Fostoria's estimated residents live in ZIP 44830 (Safety Score 43, grade C). An estimated 51% of that ZIP's residents live outside Fostoria, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 44830 profile.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Tiffin Safety Score 36 · grade D · 13 miles
- Findlay Safety Score 42 · grade C · 14 miles
- Bowling Green Safety Score 25 · grade D · 19 miles
- Fremont Safety Score 27 · grade D · 20 miles
- Perrysburg Safety Score 75 · grade B · 29 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Fostoria
Fostoria has an estimated 13,063 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 7.6 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 15 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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