Cuyahoga Heights is a village of 567 in Cuyahoga County, about 6 miles southeast of downtown Cleveland · Updated November 2026
Is Cuyahoga Heights, OH safe?
Yes, crime in Cuyahoga Heights is low, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of A-. Because most US neighborhoods are safe as well, Cuyahoga Heights sits near the middle: safer than the neighborhoods where 42% of Americans live. Violent crime grades A- and property crime B+.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 792 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
42% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Cuyahoga Heights as a whole, and 58% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Cuyahoga Heights scores 792.
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 crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime 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 Cuyahoga Heights, OH at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Cuyahoga Heights, 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 in Cuyahoga Heights
Acts of vandalism run high for an A-graded city. Cuyahoga Heights has 43.1 acts of vandalism a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of an A-graded US city, the figure is 3.0.
Thefts run high. Cuyahoga Heights has thefts at more than triple the US rate: 90.5 a year per 1,000 residents, against 13.1 nationally.
Crime rates and types in Cuyahoga Heights
CrimeGrade™ estimates Cuyahoga Heights has about 203 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than triple the rate for the US as a whole and more than triple the rate for Ohio.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft is the most common crime in Cuyahoga Heights, about 45% of everything reported, but assault costs more, because each one does more harm.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
The Cuyahoga Heights Police Department's 2024 report to the FBI was missing some months of simple assault; CrimeGrade™ filled them in from the department's own monthly pattern.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
How Cuyahoga Heights compares with nearby cities
Cuyahoga Heights has more crime than 6 of its 10 nearest cities. Independence and Valley View have the least crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Cuyahoga Heights. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with cities of similar size and density, Cuyahoga Heights has more crime than 99% of them.
Crime costs Cuyahoga Heights about $4,728 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, more than triple the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $3.4 million a year, or $6,073 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$140,000
$249
Rape
$38,000
$67
Robbery
$21,000
$38
Assault
$400,000
$713
Burglary
$38,000
$66
Theft
$260,000
$464
Vehicle theft
$88,000
$156
Arson
$5,600
$10
Vandalism
$170,000
$305
Total
$1.2 million
$2,068
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Cuyahoga Heights means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
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
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
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.
Schools in Cuyahoga Heights, OH average a SchoolGrade of A+: 79% of students test proficient, against 66% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Cuyahoga Heights on SchoolGrade
