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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Sandusky, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Sandusky, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Sandusky. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Sandusky, OH safe?
Sandusky, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 19 out of 100, grade F, 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
- 19 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 1%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 95%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 28
How Sandusky compares
Sandusky scores 34 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Sandusky lies in Erie County, which has a county Safety Score of 49, grade C.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Sandusky.
Neighborhoods inside Sandusky
28 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Sandusky, 23 of them mostly inside it. Among those 23, the lowest scores 1, the highest 44, and the middle 80% range from 5 to 34.
ZIP codes where Sandusky residents live
Nearly all of Sandusky's estimated residents live in ZIP 44870 (Safety Score 39, grade D). An estimated 42% of that ZIP's residents live outside Sandusky, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 44870 profile.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Norwalk Safety Score 37 · grade D · 15 miles
- Vermilion Safety Score 64 · grade B · 19 miles
- Fremont Safety Score 27 · grade D · 22 miles
- Amherst Safety Score 82 · grade A · 25 miles
- Lorain Safety Score 27 · grade D · 28 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Sandusky
Sandusky has an estimated 24,174 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 9.6 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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