The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Toledo, OH
The Toledo metro area, the 96th-largest in the US, is home to 602,300 residents; Toledo itself is the fourth-largest city in Ohio · Updated November 2026
Is Toledo, OH safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B+, the Toledo area has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 65% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Property crime grades better than violent crime here, A- against B. The city of Toledo itself grades C-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within the Toledo area run from A+ to F, so check the map or the safest and least safe places below.
B+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 739 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
35% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than the Toledo area as a whole, and 65% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. The Toledo area scores 739.
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 Toledo, OH at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in the Toledo area, 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 the Toledo area
One part of Toledo stands out for robbery. Robberies in Southside, Beverly & Onyx, in south Toledo, run at about triple the rate in the rest of the city.
Car thefts are less common than the crime level suggests. Crime overall in the Toledo area runs 38% above the US rate, but car thefts run 20% below it: 2.2 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
The safest and most dangerous places in the Toledo area
In the Toledo area, 75% of residents live in areas graded A or B, 7% in areas graded C and 18% in areas graded D or F. Grades across the Toledo area run from A+ to F; 54% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
75%18%
A or B 75%C 7%D or F 18%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Neighborhoods of Toledo
1Franklin Park, northwestRobberies run at a small fraction of the rate in the rest of Toledo.A-806
2West Gate, westBurglaries run at less than half the rate in the rest of Toledo.B+761
9Southside, Beverly & Onyx, southThefts run about 80% higher here than in the rest of Toledo.F0
Neighborhood areas of the city of Toledo, ranked by overall CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer). Each one combines several of the smaller areas on the map.
Cities and towns in the Toledo metro area with at least 1,000 residents. Ranked by overall CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer), and the other numbers are residents.
Across the area, the Pemberville, Luckey, and Fostoria areas have the least crime and the northeast side the most.
Is crime going up in the Toledo area?
Reported violent crime in the Toledo area peaked in 2022 and has fallen 12% since, back near its 2019 level. Property crime is down 24% from 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.0 to 5.1 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 25 to 19 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 10% and property crime fell 11%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
Toledo areaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments across the Toledo area. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Toledo area
Violent, US
Property, Toledo area
Property, US
2016
+22%
+4%
+14%
+15%
2017
+3%
+4%
+14%
+12%
2018
-3%
+0%
+7%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+5%
+4%
-15%
-8%
2021
+10%
+6%
-16%
-10%
2022
+15%
+5%
-10%
-6%
2023
+13%
+2%
-14%
-7%
2024
+1%
-4%
-24%
-15%
Crime rates and types in the Toledo area
CrimeGrade™ estimates the Toledo area has about 51 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 38% more than the US as a whole and 46% 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 the Toledo area is assault, about 52% 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 the Toledo area
These figures come from the reports of the police departments across the Toledo area, 2022 to 2024.
In the Toledo area, 74% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 36% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (74%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (25%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (36%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (55%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (38%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (63%)
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 the Toledo area compares with nearby metro areas
The Toledo area has more crime than 6 of its 10 nearest metro areas. The Pittsburgh area and the Grand Rapids area have the least crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from the Toledo area. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with metro areas of similar size and density, the Toledo area has more crime than 73% of them.
Transit, empty homes and density in the Toledo area
One thing sets the Toledo area apart: it has 12% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report less robbery and car theft, yet robbery runs higher here than that would suggest.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for the Toledo area: F (0 of 100).1 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 82% of Americans in metro areas
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary.7.5% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 77% of Americans in metro areas
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.12% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 71% of Americans in metro areas
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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.87% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 52% of Americans in metro areas
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 the Toledo area
Crime costs the Toledo area about $1,461 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 21% more than the US figure of $1,205. The total is about $368 million a year.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost rises to about $1.21 billion a year, or $2,005 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$71 million
$118
Rape
$20 million
$33
Robbery
$11 million
$18
Assault
$168 million
$279
Burglary
$14 million
$23
Theft
$44 million
$73
Vehicle theft
$20 million
$33
Arson
$3.5 million
$6
Vandalism
$17 million
$29
Total
$368 million
$611
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 the Toledo area 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. These figures cover the whole Toledo metro area. 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 the Toledo area average a SchoolGrade of C-: 53% of students test proficient, against 41% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in the Toledo area on SchoolGrade
