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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Mount Vernon, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Mount Vernon, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Mount Vernon. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Mount Vernon, OH safe?
Mount Vernon, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 36 out of 100, grade D, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 26% 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
- 26%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 58%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 22
How Mount Vernon compares
Mount Vernon scores 17 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Mount Vernon lies in Knox County, which has a county Safety Score of 74, grade B.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Mount Vernon.
Neighborhoods inside Mount Vernon
22 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Mount Vernon, 12 of them mostly inside it. Among those 12, the lowest scores 1, the highest 84, and the middle 80% range from 3 to 60.
ZIP codes where Mount Vernon residents live
Nearly all of Mount Vernon's estimated residents live in ZIP 43050 (Safety Score 50, grade C). An estimated 56% of that ZIP's residents live outside Mount Vernon, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 43050 profile.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Newark Safety Score 33 · grade D · 23 miles
- Mansfield Safety Score 26 · grade D · 25 miles
- Heath Safety Score 60 · grade B · 25 miles
- New Albany Safety Score 82 · grade A · 28 miles
- Galion Safety Score 44 · grade C · 29 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon has an estimated 17,329 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 9.7 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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