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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Wadsworth, OH

Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Wadsworth, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.

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City Safety Score 44/100 Grade C Modeled estimate · 0 to 100, higher is safer
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Is Wadsworth, OH safe?

Wadsworth, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 44 out of 100, grade C, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 22% 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
44 / 100
Residents in A or B neighborhoods
22%
Residents in D or F neighborhoods
49%
Scored neighborhoods
19

How Wadsworth compares

Wadsworth scores 9 points below the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.

Wadsworth lies in Medina County, which has a county Safety Score of 98, grade A.

County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Wadsworth.

Neighborhoods inside Wadsworth

19 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Wadsworth, 12 of them mostly inside it. Among those 12, the lowest scores 14, the highest 77, and the middle 80% range from 20 to 77.

Safety Score, 0–100 · shaded band: 10th–90th percentiles · whiskers: lowest and highest

Wadsworth

A 0% · B 22% · C 29% · D 43% · F 6%

Ohio

A 25% · B 20% · C 20% · D 19% · F 16%

Estimated share of residents living in neighborhoods of each grade, in Wadsworth and across Ohio.

ZIP codes where Wadsworth residents live

Nearly all of Wadsworth's estimated residents live in ZIP 44281 (Safety Score 52, grade C). An estimated 41% of that ZIP's residents live outside Wadsworth, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 44281 profile.

Closest cities in Ohio

  1. Norton Safety Score 76 · grade B · 4.4 miles
  2. Barberton Safety Score 43 · grade C · 6.6 miles
  3. New Franklin Safety Score 72 · grade B · 9.6 miles
  4. Medina Safety Score 47 · grade C · 10 miles
  5. Akron Safety Score 29 · grade D · 11 miles

Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.

About Wadsworth

Wadsworth has an estimated 24,753 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 11.3 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 19 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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Scores as of

Safety Scores compare areas on a 0–100 scale; higher is safer. Scores are modeled estimates, not official crime rates or reported incident counts.

City scores combine the scored neighborhoods that lie at least partly within city limits, weighted by their estimated residents inside the limits. They are not an average of the ZIP scores listed for a city.

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