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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Kettering, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Kettering, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Kettering. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Kettering, OH safe?
Kettering, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 63 out of 100, grade B, above the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 58% 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
- 63 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 58%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 5%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 58
How Kettering compares
Kettering scores 10 points above the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
An estimated 99% of Kettering's residents live in Montgomery County, which has a county Safety Score of 19, grade F. Kettering's city limits also take in land in 1 other county, with under 1% of its estimated residents.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Kettering.
Neighborhoods inside Kettering
58 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Kettering, 54 of them mostly inside it. Among those 54, the lowest scores 24, the highest 93, and the middle 80% range from 43 to 93.
ZIP codes where Kettering residents live
Listed by the estimated share of Kettering'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
- Centerville Safety Score 72 · grade B · 4.0 miles
- Beavercreek Safety Score 67 · grade B · 5.1 miles
- Dayton Safety Score 24 · grade D · 5.3 miles
- West Carrollton Safety Score 49 · grade C · 5.7 miles
- Riverside Safety Score 50 · grade C · 5.8 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Kettering
Kettering has an estimated 57,028 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 18.7 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 58 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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