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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Kent, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Kent, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Kent. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Kent, OH safe?
Kent, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 15 out of 100, grade F, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Under 1% 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
- 15 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- <1%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 85%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 22
How Kent compares
Kent scores 38 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Kent lies in Portage County, which has a county Safety Score of 62, grade B.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Kent.
Neighborhoods inside Kent
22 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Kent, 15 of them mostly inside it. Among those 15, the lowest scores 1, the highest 54, and the middle 80% range from 2 to 42.
ZIP codes where Kent residents live
Listed by the estimated share of Kent'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
- Stow Safety Score 76 · grade B · 4.4 miles
- Tallmadge Safety Score 79 · grade B · 5.1 miles
- Ravenna Safety Score 26 · grade D · 5.7 miles
- Streetsboro Safety Score 61 · grade B · 6.6 miles
- Cuyahoga Falls Safety Score 50 · grade C · 7.2 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Kent
Kent has an estimated 27,720 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 9.2 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 22 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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