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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Van Wert, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Van Wert, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Van Wert. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Van Wert, OH safe?
Van Wert, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 31 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
- 31 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 1%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 69%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 13
How Van Wert compares
Van Wert scores 22 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Van Wert lies in Van Wert County, which has a county Safety Score of 88, grade A.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Van Wert.
Neighborhoods inside Van Wert
13 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Van Wert, 8 of them mostly inside it. Among those 8, the lowest scores 10, the highest 51, and the middle 80% range from 16 to 47.
ZIP codes where Van Wert residents live
Nearly all of Van Wert's estimated residents live in ZIP 45891 (Safety Score 43, grade C). An estimated 44% of that ZIP's residents live outside Van Wert, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 45891 profile.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Celina Safety Score 34 · grade D · 22 miles
- Lima Safety Score 28 · grade D · 26 miles
- Defiance Safety Score 40 · grade C · 31 miles
- Sidney Safety Score 40 · grade C · 45 miles
- Findlay Safety Score 42 · grade C · 51 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Van Wert
Van Wert has an estimated 11,123 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 7.5 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 13 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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