Heath is a city of 15,100 in Licking County, about 30 miles east of downtown Columbus · Updated November 2026
Is Heath, OH safe?
Yes. Most US neighborhoods have little crime, and Heath has less than most of them: its overall CrimeGrade™ is A, safer than the neighborhoods where 63% of Americans live. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, A+ against A-. Its neighborhoods are much alike, from A+ to A-; see the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 887 of 1,000Safer than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
63% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Heath as a whole, and 37% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Heath scores 887.
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 Heath, OH at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Heath, 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 Heath
Vehicle theft is a strength. Heath grades A- for property crime, but vehicle theft grades A+, better than in the neighborhoods where 74% of Americans live.
Burglaries happen at stores and businesses far more often than nationally. In Heath, 62% of reported burglaries happen at stores and businesses, against 28% nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Heath
Every part of Heath where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Heath run from A+ to A-; 87% 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 Heath, the south side has the least crime and the northwest side the most.
Is crime going up in Heath?
Reported property crime in Heath has held about steady since 2019, within 4%. Too few violent crimes are reported here each year for a reliable violent crime trend. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 42 to 44 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
HeathUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Heath. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Heath
Property, US
2016
+49%
+15%
2017
+33%
+12%
2018
+20%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+3%
-8%
2021
+6%
-10%
2022
+6%
-6%
2023
-3%
-7%
2024
+4%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Heath
CrimeGrade™ estimates Heath has about 46 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 24% more than the US as a whole and 32% more 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 Heath is theft, about 64% 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 Heath
Heath has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
Thefts from cars happen most often at stores and businesses: 30% of them, against 10% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (62%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Stores and businesses (30%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Stores and businesses (28%)
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 Heath compares with nearby cities
Of the 7 cities closest to Heath, 5 have less crime. Thornville and Granville have the least.
Two things set Heath apart: it has 19.6 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 3.3 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft, and it runs high here.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.19.6 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 96% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.3.3 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 88% 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. 81% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (14 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 63% of US city residents
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Heath: F (0 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% 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.66% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 80% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.4% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 78% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Heath on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
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 Heath
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Heath about $908 a year per household, 25% 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 $11 million a year, or $732 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$430,000
$29
Rape
$340,000
$23
Robbery
$160,000
$11
Assault
$1.0 million
$68
Burglary
$340,000
$22
Theft
$2.3 million
$153
Vehicle theft
$190,000
$12
Arson
$20,000
$1
Vandalism
$530,000
$35
Total
$5.3 million
$354
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 Heath 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. Heath is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
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 Heath, OH average a SchoolGrade of A-: 71% of students test proficient, against 59% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Heath on SchoolGrade
