Victorian Village is a neighborhood of 5,810 residents in Columbus, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Victorian Village in Columbus safe?
Victorian Village has more crime than most of the country: an overall CrimeGrade™ of C, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 86% of Americans live. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, B against F. Columbus as a whole grades C. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Victorian Village run from B+ to D, so check the map below.
C
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 389 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
14% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Victorian Village as a whole, and 86% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Victorian Village scores 389.
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 Victorian Village, Columbus, OH at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Victorian Village in Columbus, 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 Victorian Village
Reported rapes run high for a C-graded neighborhood. Victorian Village has 1.9 reported rapes a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a C-graded US neighborhood, the figure is 0.39.
Car thefts run high. Victorian Village has car thefts at about triple the US rate: 8.1 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
Crime rates and types in Victorian Village
CrimeGrade™ estimates Victorian Village has about 75 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and close to Columbus 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.
Vandalism is the most common crime in Victorian Village, about 32% 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 Columbus
The Columbus Police Department polices Victorian Village; these figures cover Columbus as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Columbus as a whole, 59% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 58% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (59%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (33%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (58%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Parking lots and garages (34%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (28%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (50%)
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 Victorian Village compares with nearby neighborhoods
Victorian Village has less crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Victorian Village. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Victorian Village has more crime than 55% of them.
Nightlife, walkability and empty homes in Victorian Village
Two things set Victorian Village apart: it has 4.5 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally, and a Walk Grade of A (82 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report more assault and robbery.
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.4.5 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 97% 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. 81% of residents here live in walkable areas.A (82 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 85% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.10.7% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 83% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.63 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 77% 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 Victorian Village
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Victorian Village about $1,259 a year per household, about the same as 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 $12 million a year, or $2,087 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 Victorian Village 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
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 Victorian Village, Columbus, OH average a SchoolGrade of F: 43% of students test proficient, against 32% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Victorian Village on SchoolGrade
