Number of Violent Crimes
Violent Crime Rate
Number of violent Crimes
wdt_ID | Year | Springfield | Clark County | Ohio | United States |
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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 |
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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.