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

Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Wooster, 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 Wooster, OH safe?

Wooster, Ohio has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 44 out of 100, grade C, below the Ohio statewide score of 53. An estimated 32% 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
32%
Residents in D or F neighborhoods
62%
Scored neighborhoods
26

How Wooster compares

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

Wooster lies in Wayne County, which has a county Safety Score of 80, grade A.

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

Neighborhoods inside Wooster

26 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Wooster, 19 of them mostly inside it. Among those 19, the lowest scores 4, the highest 90, and the middle 80% range from 10 to 90.

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

Wooster

A 19% · B 13% · C 6% · D 38% · F 24%

Ohio

A 25% · B 20% · C 20% · D 19% · F 16%

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

ZIP codes where Wooster residents live

Nearly all of Wooster's estimated residents live in ZIP 44691 (Safety Score 54, grade C). An estimated 49% of that ZIP's residents live outside Wooster, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 44691 profile.

Closest cities in Ohio

  1. Wadsworth Safety Score 44 · grade C · 18 miles
  2. Ashland Safety Score 39 · grade D · 20 miles
  3. New Franklin Safety Score 72 · grade B · 21 miles
  4. Norton Safety Score 76 · grade B · 21 miles
  5. Massillon Safety Score 44 · grade C · 22 miles

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

About Wooster

Wooster has an estimated 26,982 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 17.1 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 26 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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