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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Salem, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Salem, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Salem. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Salem, OH safe?
Salem, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 33 out of 100, grade D, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 1% 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
- 1%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 70%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 18
How Salem compares
Salem scores 20 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Nearly all of Salem's estimated residents live in Columbiana County, which has a county Safety Score of 27, grade D. Salem's city limits also take in land in 1 other county, with under 1% of its estimated residents.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Salem.
Neighborhoods inside Salem
18 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Salem, 11 of them mostly inside it. Among those 11, the lowest scores 12, the highest 57, and the middle 80% range from 18 to 44.
ZIP codes where Salem residents live
Nearly all of Salem's estimated residents live in ZIP 44460 (Safety Score 53, grade C). An estimated 59% of that ZIP's residents live outside Salem, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 44460 profile.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Alliance Safety Score 27 · grade D · 14 miles
- Youngstown Safety Score 22 · grade D · 17 miles
- Niles Safety Score 40 · grade C · 20 miles
- Warren Safety Score 23 · grade D · 23 miles
- Ravenna Safety Score 26 · grade D · 27 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Salem
Salem has an estimated 11,685 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 6.4 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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