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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Portsmouth, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Portsmouth, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Portsmouth. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Portsmouth, OH safe?
Portsmouth, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 16 out of 100, grade F, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 2% 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
- 16 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 2%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 91%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 28
How Portsmouth compares
Portsmouth scores 37 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Portsmouth lies in Scioto County, which has a county Safety Score of 23, grade D.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Portsmouth.
Neighborhoods inside Portsmouth
28 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Portsmouth, 21 of them mostly inside it. Among those 21, the lowest scores 1, the highest 40, and the middle 80% range from 4 to 24.
ZIP codes where Portsmouth residents live
Nearly all of Portsmouth's estimated residents live in ZIP 45662 (Safety Score 27, grade D). An estimated 40% of that ZIP's residents live outside Portsmouth, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 45662 profile.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Ironton Safety Score 32 · grade D · 22 miles
- Chillicothe Safety Score 29 · grade D · 41 miles
- Circleville Safety Score 36 · grade D · 59 miles
- Washington Court House Safety Score 46 · grade C · 60 miles
- Athens Safety Score 12 · grade F · 61 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Portsmouth
Portsmouth has an estimated 17,489 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 10.7 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 28 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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