Northwest Akron is a neighborhood of 11,200 residents in Akron, about 4 miles northwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Northwest Akron in Akron safe?
Yes, crime in Northwest Akron is low, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of A-. Because most US neighborhoods are safe as well, Northwest Akron sits near the middle: safer than the neighborhoods where 42% of Americans live. Violent and property crime both grade A- here. Akron as a whole grades C. Its neighborhoods are much alike, from A- to B+; see the map below.
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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 Northwest Akron as a whole, and 58% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Northwest Akron 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 Northwest Akron, Akron, OH at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Northwest Akron in Akron, 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 Northwest Akron
Aggravated assault stands out among A-graded neighborhoods. For the typical resident of an A-graded US neighborhood, the figure is 1.2 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents; Northwest Akron has 2.1.
How Northwest Akron compares within Akron
Every part of Northwest Akron where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Northwest Akron run from A- to B+; 5% 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.
Northwest Akron has less crime than 18 of the 19 neighborhoods in Akron. It covers much of the Northwest Akron, Wallhaven, and Merriman Valley areas.
Is crime going up in Akron?
Reported crime in Akron as a whole has fallen since 2019: violent crime is down 13% and property crime down 13%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 9.4 to 8.2 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 34 to 29 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
AkronUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Akron. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Akron
Violent, US
Property, Akron
Property, US
2016
-30%
+4%
+29%
+15%
2017
-25%
+4%
+26%
+12%
2018
-7%
+0%
+9%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+3%
+4%
+10%
-8%
2021
-6%
+6%
+3%
-10%
2022
-11%
+5%
+3%
-6%
2023
-16%
+2%
-11%
-7%
2024
-13%
-4%
-13%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Northwest Akron
CrimeGrade™ estimates Northwest Akron has about 26 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 30% less than the US as a whole and 66% less than Akron as a whole.
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.
Assault is the most common crime in Northwest Akron, about 37% of everything reported, and it also accounts for 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 Akron
The Akron Police Department polices Northwest Akron; these figures cover Akron as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Akron as a whole, 73% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 35% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (73%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (38%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (35%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (53%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Homes (29%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (58%)
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 Northwest Akron compares with nearby neighborhoods
Northwest Akron has less crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only West Village has less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Northwest Akron. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Northwest Akron is safer than 58% of them.
Tree cover, density and walkability in Northwest Akron
Two things set Northwest Akron apart: it has tree cover over 37% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally, and 4% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report less robbery.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.37% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 96% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 96% 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 and assault. 92% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (10 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 92% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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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 Northwest Akron: D+ (24 of 100).under 1 trip an hourUS: noneLower than for 90% 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 crime costs Northwest Akron
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Northwest Akron about $641 a year per household, 47% 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 $10 million a year, or $933 per resident.
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 Northwest Akron 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 Northwest Akron, Akron, OH average a SchoolGrade of D+: 56% of students test proficient, against 38% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Northwest Akron on SchoolGrade
