Ohio · City profile
Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Newark, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Newark, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Newark. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Newark, OH safe?
Newark, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 33 out of 100, grade D, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 15% 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
- 33 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 15%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 67%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 50
How Newark compares
Newark scores 20 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Newark lies in Licking County, which has a county Safety Score of 70, grade B.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Newark.
Neighborhoods inside Newark
50 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Newark, 40 of them mostly inside it. Among those 40, the lowest scores 1, the highest 86, and the middle 80% range from 6 to 58.
ZIP codes where Newark residents live
An estimated 99% of Newark's residents live in ZIP 43055 (Safety Score 40, grade C). An estimated 27% of that ZIP's residents live outside Newark, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 43055 profile.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Heath Safety Score 60 · grade B · 2.5 miles
- Pataskala Safety Score 75 · grade B · 16 miles
- New Albany Safety Score 82 · grade A · 20 miles
- Reynoldsburg Safety Score 51 · grade C · 21 miles
- Pickerington Safety Score 58 · grade C · 22 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Newark
Newark has an estimated 51,424 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 20.9 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 50 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.
For product teams