Number of Property Crimes
Property Crime Rate
Number of Property Crimes
| wdt_ID | Year | Springfield | Clark County | Ohio | United States |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2010 | 4,494 | 1,406 | 376,886 | 9,112,625 |
| 3 | 2011 | 4,630 | 814 | 380,657 | 9,052,743 |
| 4 | 2012 | 4,337 | 1,139 | 370,287 | 9,001,992 |
| 5 | 2013 | 4,463 | 1,345 | 338,545 | 8,651,892 |
| 6 | 2014 | 4,238 | 1,240 | 322,679 | 8,209,010 |
| 7 | 2015 | 3,699 | 1,115 | 304,074 | 8,024,115 |
| 8 | 2016 | 4,040 | 1,185 | 301,265 | 7,928,530 |
| 9 | 2017 | 4,024 | 804 | 280,557 | 7,694,086 |
| 10 | 2018 | 3,141 | 630 | 254,491 | 2,684,855 |
Property Crime Rate
| wdt_ID | Year | Springfield | Clark County | Ohio | United States |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2010 | 7,414.9 | 2,148.5 | 3,266.1 | 2,945.9 |
| 3 | 2011 | 7,633.7 | 1,242.9 | 3,297.6 | 2,905.4 |
| 4 | 2012 | 7,188.9 | 1,748.8 | 3,206.4 | 2,868.0 |
| 5 | 2013 | 7,436.8 | 2,069.7 | 2,924.4 | 2,733.6 |
| 6 | 2014 | 7,196.3 | 1,916.3 | 2,781.0 | 2,574.1 |
| 7 | 2015 | 6,185.2 | 1,732.7 | 2,617.3 | 2,500.5 |
| 8 | 2016 | 6,789.6 | 1,856.1 | 2,589.3 | 2,451.6 |
| 9 | 2017 | 6,838.5 | 1,259.5 | 2,405.3 | 2,362.2 |
| 10 | 2018 | 5,322.3 | 995.9 | 2,177.1 | 2,199.5 |
These data measure the total number and rate of property crimes reported to the Springfield city police office, compared to the Clark County sheriff’s office, Ohio and the United States.
- Property crime in Springfield has decreased from 7966.9 to 6838.5 per 100,000 residents. In number, there were 470 less property crimes committed in 2017 than in 2010.
- Property crimes rates have likewise gone down slightly in Clark County, Ohio, and the United States.
All data comes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
This information comes from the Crime Data Explorer for Springfield and Clark County.
Crime rates are typically calculated by number of total incidents per 100,000 people. Because the city of Springfield has a population of less than 100,000, these rates are actually higher than the real number of incidents. For instance, the rate rate of Springfield property crime in 2017 was 6838.5, while the Springfield population in 2017 was 59206; this means that there were actually about 4049 property crimes in Springfield that year.
The crime rate for Clark County is the rate of reported crimes per 100,000 people for only the Clark County Sheriff’s Office and does not include the crime rates of Springfield or the surrounding cities of Clark County.
Numbers were collected from the Crime Data Explorer while population estimates for the state of Ohio and the United States were used to calculate rates came from the U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates for County Population by Characteristics.
This post was last updated on 21 October 2019.