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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Westlake, OH
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Westlake, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Westlake. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Westlake, OH safe?
Westlake, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 77 out of 100, grade B, above the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 79% 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
- 77 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 79%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 11%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 27
How Westlake compares
Westlake scores 24 points above the Ohio statewide score of 53. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Westlake lies in Cuyahoga County, which has a county Safety Score of 11, grade F.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Westlake.
Neighborhoods inside Westlake
27 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Westlake, 27 of them mostly inside it. Among those 27, the lowest scores 28, the highest 92, and the middle 80% range from 39 to 92.
ZIP codes where Westlake residents live
Nearly all of Westlake's estimated residents live in ZIP 44145 (Safety Score 78, grade B). Nearly all of that ZIP's residents live in Westlake, but the city score uses only the neighborhoods inside the city limits. See the ZIP 44145 profile.
Closest cities in Ohio
- Bay Village Safety Score 87 · grade A · 2.3 miles
- North Olmsted Safety Score 72 · grade B · 2.5 miles
- Fairview Park Safety Score 67 · grade B · 3.8 miles
- Rocky River Safety Score 71 · grade B · 4.1 miles
- Avon Safety Score 79 · grade B · 5.0 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Westlake
Westlake has an estimated 34,232 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 15.9 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 27 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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