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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Ironton, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Ironton, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Ironton. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Ironton, OH safe?
Ironton, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 32 out of 100, grade D, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 23% 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
- 23%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 76%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 16
How Ironton compares
Ironton scores 21 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Ironton lies in Lawrence County, which has a county Safety Score of 26, grade D.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Ironton.
Neighborhoods inside Ironton
16 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Ironton, 13 of them mostly inside it. Among those 13, the lowest scores 1, the highest 88, and the middle 80% range from 4 to 85.
ZIP codes where Ironton residents live
Nearly all of Ironton's estimated residents live in ZIP 45638 (Safety Score 37, grade D). An estimated 48% of that ZIP's residents live outside Ironton, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 45638 profile.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Portsmouth Safety Score 16 · grade F · 22 miles
- Chillicothe Safety Score 29 · grade D · 58 miles
- Athens Safety Score 12 · grade F · 63 miles
- Circleville Safety Score 36 · grade D · 76 miles
- Washington Court House Safety Score 46 · grade C · 81 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Ironton
Ironton has an estimated 10,147 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 4.5 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 16 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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