The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Fairborn, OH
Fairborn is a city of 40,400 in Greene County, about 10 miles east of downtown Dayton · Updated November 2026
Is Fairborn, OH safe?
Yes, crime in Fairborn is low, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of A-. Because most US neighborhoods are safe as well, Fairborn sits near the middle: safer than the neighborhoods where 48% of Americans live. Violent and property crime both grade A- here. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Fairborn run from A+ to B, so check the map below.
A-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 829 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
48% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Fairborn as a whole, and 52% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Fairborn scores 829.
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 Fairborn, OH at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Fairborn, 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 Fairborn
Reported rapes run high, though crime overall runs low. Crime overall in Fairborn runs 22% below the US rate, but reported rapes run 83% above it: 0.70 a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.38 nationally.
Vehicle theft stands out among A-graded cities. For the typical resident of an A-graded US city, the figure is 0.93 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents; Fairborn has 2.0.
The safest and least safe parts of Fairborn
Every part of Fairborn where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Fairborn run from A+ to B; 49% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Fairborn, the southeast side has the least crime and the west side the most.
Is crime going up in Fairborn?
Reported violent crime in Fairborn peaked in 2020 and has fallen 10% since, back near its 2019 level. Property crime is down 32% from 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 2.8 to 2.7 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 19 to 13 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
FairbornUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Fairborn. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Fairborn
Violent, US
Property, Fairborn
Property, US
2016
-8%
+4%
+44%
+15%
2017
-8%
+4%
+15%
+12%
2018
+22%
+0%
+6%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+10%
+4%
-17%
-8%
2021
-20%
+6%
-29%
-10%
2022
+3%
+5%
-35%
-6%
2023
-5%
+2%
-34%
-7%
2024
-1%
-4%
-32%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Fairborn
CrimeGrade™ estimates Fairborn has about 29 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 22% less than the US as a whole and 18% less than 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.
The largest share of crime reported in Fairborn is assault, about 44% of the total. It also makes up the largest share of what crime costs here.
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.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when crime happens in Fairborn
Fairborn has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Fairborn, 82% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 46% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (82%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Car theft
Homes (45%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (46%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (38%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (72%)
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.
How Fairborn compares with nearby cities
Fairborn has more crime than 6 of its 8 nearest cities. Medway and Enon have the least crime nearby.
Two things set Fairborn apart: it has 6.7 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 30 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less theft; here theft sits near the national middle.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.6.7 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 83% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.30 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 71% of US city residents
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 and assault. 86% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (15 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 58% of US city residents
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Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.6.6% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 59% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.1.9 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 58% of US city residents
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.98% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 56% of US city residents
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 crime costs Fairborn
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Fairborn about $725 a year per household, 40% less than 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 $32 million a year, or $795 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$610,000
$15
Rape
$1.7 million
$42
Robbery
$270,000
$7
Assault
$5.0 million
$124
Burglary
$600,000
$15
Theft
$1.7 million
$43
Vehicle theft
$1.2 million
$31
Arson
$95,000
$2
Vandalism
$920,000
$23
Total
$12 million
$302
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 Fairborn 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 Fairborn, OH average a SchoolGrade of B: 65% of students test proficient, against 57% projected for schools like them. Overall, they don't meet expectations. See schools in Fairborn on SchoolGrade
