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Violent Crimes

The number and rate of violent crime in Springfield

Number of Violent Crimes

Violent Crime Rate

Number of violent Crimes

wdt_ID Year Springfield Clark County Ohio United States
2 2010 480 28 36,314 1,251,224
3 2011 390 13 35,231 1,206,126
4 2012 373 28 34,818 1,217,204
5 2013 427 44 33,734 1,166,569
6 2014 442 53 33,150 1,151,285
7 2015 355 37 34,412 1,198,615
8 2016 411 46 35,801 1,284,209
9 2017 370 26 34,619 1,284,006
11 2018 336 41 32,719 1,245,199

Violent Crime Rate

wdt_ID Year Springfield Clark County Ohio United States
2 2010 792.0 42.8 314.7 404.5
3 2011 643.0 19.9 305.2 387.1
4 2012 618.3 43.0 301.5 387.8
5 2013 711.5 67.7 291.4 369.1
6 2014 750.5 81.9 285.7 361.6
7 2015 593.6 57.5 296.2 373.7
8 2016 690.7 72.1 307.7 397.5
9 2017 628.8 40.7 296.8 394.9
10 2018 569.3 64.8 279.9 380.6

These data measure the total number and rate of violent crimes reported to the Springfield city police office, compared to the Clark County sheriff’s office, Ohio and the United States.

Violent crime in Springfield has decreased from 1288.3 to 628.8 per 100,000 residents. In number, there were 110 less violent crimes in Springfield in 2017 than in 2010.

Violent crime rates have stayed about the same 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.

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 violent crime in 2017 was 628.8, while the Springfield population in 2017 was 59206; this means that there were actually about 372 violent 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 for Springfield and Clark County, 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 4 November 2019.

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