The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Whitehall, OH
Whitehall is a city of 22,000 in Franklin County, about 6 miles east of downtown Columbus · Updated November 2026
Is Whitehall, OH safe?
Whitehall has more crime than most of the country: an overall CrimeGrade™ of C, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 84% of Americans live. Violent crime grades C and property crime C+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Whitehall run from B to F, so check the map below.
C
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 439 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
16% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Whitehall as a whole, and 84% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Whitehall scores 439.
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 Whitehall, OH at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Whitehall, 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 Whitehall
Reported rapes run high for a C-graded city. Whitehall has 1.3 reported rapes a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a C-graded US city, the figure is 0.30.
Robberies run high. Whitehall has robberies at more than triple the US rate: 2.7 a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Whitehall
Areas graded C are home to 75% of residents in Whitehall; 7% live in areas graded A or B and 18% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Whitehall run from B to F; every part of Whitehall has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
75%18%
A or B 7%C 75%D or F 18%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Whitehall, the northeast side has the least crime and the south side the most.
Is crime going up in Whitehall?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Whitehall is up 72%, while property crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 6.0 to 10 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 58 to 59 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
WhitehallUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Whitehall. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Whitehall
Violent, US
Property, Whitehall
Property, US
2016
+28%
+4%
+7%
+15%
2017
+10%
+4%
+15%
+12%
2018
+5%
+0%
-3%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+36%
+4%
-28%
-8%
2021
+74%
+6%
-20%
-10%
2022
+44%
+5%
+5%
-6%
2023
+70%
+2%
+12%
-7%
2024
+72%
-4%
+1%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Whitehall
CrimeGrade™ estimates Whitehall has about 97 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and more than double the rate for 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.
Theft is the most common crime in Whitehall, about 46% of everything reported, but assault costs more, because each one does more harm.
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 Whitehall
Whitehall has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Whitehall, 58% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 67% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (58%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (62%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Homes (67%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (53%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (71%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (59%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Whitehall compares with nearby cities
Of the 9 cities closest to Whitehall, 8 have less crime. Pickerington and Groveport have the least.
Night lighting, parking lots and walkability in Whitehall
Two things set Whitehall apart: it has 3.3 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and a Walk Grade of C- (31 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. Even so, 59% of residents in Whitehall live in car-dependent areas, where most errands take a car. Places like that tend to report more theft, and it runs high here.
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.100% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 92% 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 89% 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.C- (31 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 81% of US city residents
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.13.5 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 79% of US city residents
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.7.9% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 71% 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.29% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 67% 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 Whitehall
Crime costs Whitehall about $2,630 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, about double 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 $68 million a year, or $3,114 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$3.2 million
$145
Rape
$1.8 million
$80
Robbery
$1.8 million
$83
Assault
$7.2 million
$328
Burglary
$1.0 million
$46
Theft
$5.1 million
$231
Vehicle theft
$1.7 million
$78
Arson
$62,000
$3
Vandalism
$1.4 million
$61
Total
$23 million
$1,054
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 Whitehall 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 Whitehall, OH average a SchoolGrade of F: 29% of students test proficient, against 19% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Whitehall on SchoolGrade
