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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Lancaster, OH

Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Lancaster, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.

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City Safety Score 34/100 Grade D Modeled estimate · 0 to 100, higher is safer
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Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Lancaster. The map can include areas outside the city limits.

Is Lancaster, OH safe?

Lancaster, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 34 out of 100, grade D, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 8% 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
34 / 100
Residents in A or B neighborhoods
8%
Residents in D or F neighborhoods
60%
Scored neighborhoods
40

How Lancaster compares

Lancaster scores 19 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.

Lancaster lies in Fairfield County, which has a county Safety Score of 88, grade A.

County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Lancaster.

Neighborhoods inside Lancaster

40 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Lancaster, 29 of them mostly inside it. Among those 29, the lowest scores 5, the highest 84, and the middle 80% range from 10 to 57.

Safety Score, 0–100 · shaded band: 10th–90th percentiles · whiskers: lowest and highest

Lancaster

A 8% · B 0% · C 32% · D 26% · F 35%

Ohio

A 25% · B 20% · C 20% · D 19% · F 16%

Estimated share of residents living in neighborhoods of each grade, in Lancaster and across Ohio.

ZIP codes where Lancaster residents live

Nearly all of Lancaster's estimated residents live in ZIP 43130 (Safety Score 48, grade C). An estimated 44% of that ZIP's residents live outside Lancaster, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 43130 profile.

Closest cities in Ohio

  1. Canal Winchester Safety Score 82 · grade A · 14 miles
  2. Pickerington Safety Score 58 · grade C · 15 miles
  3. Reynoldsburg Safety Score 51 · grade C · 19 miles
  4. Circleville Safety Score 36 · grade D · 19 miles
  5. Pataskala Safety Score 75 · grade B · 20 miles

Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.

About Lancaster

Lancaster has an estimated 41,671 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 18.8 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 40 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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Scores as of

Safety Scores compare areas on a 0–100 scale; higher is safer. Scores are modeled estimates, not official crime rates or reported incident counts.

City scores combine the scored neighborhoods that lie at least partly within city limits, weighted by their estimated residents inside the limits. They are not an average of the ZIP scores listed for a city.

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