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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Norwalk, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Norwalk, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Norwalk. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Norwalk, OH safe?
Norwalk, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 37 out of 100, grade D, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 13% 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
- 37 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 13%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 57%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 18
How Norwalk compares
Norwalk scores 16 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Norwalk lies in Huron County, which has a county Safety Score of 35, grade D.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Norwalk.
Neighborhoods inside Norwalk
18 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Norwalk, 11 of them mostly inside it. Among those 11, the lowest scores 8, the highest 83, and the middle 80% range from 9 to 46.
ZIP codes where Norwalk residents live
Nearly all of Norwalk's estimated residents live in ZIP 44857 (Safety Score 47, grade C). An estimated 43% of that ZIP's residents live outside Norwalk, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 44857 profile.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Sandusky Safety Score 19 · grade F · 15 miles
- Vermilion Safety Score 64 · grade B · 19 miles
- Amherst Safety Score 82 · grade A · 23 miles
- Lorain Safety Score 27 · grade D · 27 miles
- Fremont Safety Score 27 · grade D · 27 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Norwalk
Norwalk has an estimated 17,172 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 8.9 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 18 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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