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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Reading, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Reading, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Reading. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Reading, OH safe?
Reading, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 48 out of 100, grade C, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 12% 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
- 48 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 12%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 42%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 10
How Reading compares
Reading scores 5 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Reading lies in Hamilton 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 Reading.
Neighborhoods inside Reading
10 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Reading, 8 of them mostly inside it. Among those 8, the lowest scores 26, the highest 91, and the middle 80% range from 32 to 67.
ZIP codes where Reading residents live
Listed by the estimated share of Reading's residents who live in each ZIP code. A ZIP score covers the whole ZIP, including any part outside the city.
Higher scores indicate safer modeled conditions. Scored areas are Census block groups, not a coverage percentage.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Blue Ash Safety Score 77 · grade B · 2.7 miles
- Sharonville Safety Score 57 · grade C · 4.3 miles
- Norwood Safety Score 36 · grade D · 4.6 miles
- Montgomery Safety Score 81 · grade A · 4.9 miles
- Springdale Safety Score 49 · grade C · 5.4 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Reading
Reading has an estimated 10,482 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 2.9 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 10 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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