College Hill, Cincinnati, OH Property Crime Rates and Maps
College Hill is a neighborhood of 17,300 residents in Cincinnati, about 7 miles north of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in College Hill?
Property crime is high in College Hill: a C-, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 85% of Americans live. Theft makes up 43% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A-, and vehicle theft grades F. Cincinnati as a whole grades B- for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 327 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
15% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than College Hill as a whole, and 85% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. College Hill scores 327.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in College Hill, Cincinnati, OH at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in College Hill in Cincinnati, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about property crime in College Hill
Car thefts run high. College Hill has car thefts at more than double the US rate: 6.7 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How College Hill compares within Cincinnati
Areas graded C for property crime are home to 50% of residents in College Hill; 6% live in areas graded A or B and 44% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across College Hill run from A- to F.
50%44%
A or B 6%C 50%D or F 44%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
College Hill has less property crime than 16 of the 42 neighborhoods in Cincinnati. It covers much of the College Hill, Mount Airy, and Northside areas.
Is property crime going up in Cincinnati?
Reported property crime in Cincinnati as a whole has fallen 12% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 43 to 38 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 11%.
Property crime, change since 2019
CincinnatiUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Cincinnati. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Cincinnati
Property, US
2016
+20%
+15%
2017
+17%
+12%
2018
+6%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-15%
-8%
2021
-24%
-10%
2022
-13%
-6%
2023
-1%
-7%
2024
-12%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in College Hill
CrimeGrade™ estimates College Hill has about 33 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 37% more than the US as a whole and close to Cincinnati as a whole.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in College Hill, about 43% of the total, followed by vandalism and vehicle theft.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when property crime happens in Cincinnati
The Cincinnati Police Department polices College Hill; these figures cover Cincinnati as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Cincinnati as a whole, 65% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 42% of them, against 27% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (65%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (42%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (34%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Property crime in College Hill and nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to College Hill, 6 have less property crime. Monfort Heights South and Groesbeck have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from College Hill. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, College Hill has more property crime than 92% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set College Hill apart: it has 10% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and 10 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less car theft, yet car theft runs higher here than that would suggest.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.10% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 91% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.10 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 89% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft. 89% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (15 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 83% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.4.7 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 81% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What property crime costs College Hill
Property crime costs College Hill about $4.6 million a year, or $264 per resident and about $614 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
