Xenia is a city of 35,300 in Greene County, about 14 miles east of downtown Dayton · Updated November 2026
Is Xenia, OH safe?
Yes, crime in Xenia is low, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of A. Because most US neighborhoods are safe as well, Xenia sits near the middle: safer than the neighborhoods where 60% of Americans live. Violent and property crime both grade A here. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Xenia run from A+ to B, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 878 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
60% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Xenia as a whole, and 40% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Xenia scores 878.
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 Xenia, OH at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Xenia, 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 Xenia
Reported rapes run high, though crime overall runs low. Crime overall in Xenia runs 30% below the US rate, but reported rapes run 81% above it: 0.69 a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.38 nationally.
Car thefts and aggravated assaults both run low. In Xenia, each runs at less than half the US rate: 1.0 car thefts and 1.1 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 and 2.6 nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Xenia
Every part of Xenia where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Xenia run from A+ to B; 63% 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 Xenia, the southeast side has the least crime and the center the most.
Is crime going up in Xenia?
Since 2019, reported property crime in Xenia is down 43%, while violent crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 2.4 to 2.3 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 22 to 13 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 28%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
XeniaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police agencies that serve Xenia. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Xenia
Violent, US
Property, Xenia
Property, US
2016
-28%
+4%
+25%
+15%
2017
-24%
+4%
+22%
+12%
2018
-1%
+0%
+18%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+8%
+4%
-7%
-8%
2021
-33%
+6%
-28%
-10%
2022
-36%
+5%
-23%
-6%
2023
-6%
+2%
-21%
-7%
2024
-3%
-4%
-43%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Xenia
CrimeGrade™ estimates Xenia has about 26 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 30% less than the US as a whole and 26% less 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 Xenia is assault, about 40% 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 Xenia
Xenia has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Xenia, 70% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 30% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (70%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (41%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (30%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (70%)
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 Xenia compares with nearby cities
Of the 6 cities closest to Xenia, 5 have less crime. Spring Valley and Trebeins have the least.
Two things set Xenia apart: it has 6.7 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 4% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report less theft, and it runs low here.
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 Xenia: F (0 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.6.7 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 83% 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. 87% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (12 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 68% of US city residents
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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 77% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.27 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 76% 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.80% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 71% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Xenia 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 Xenia
Crime costs Xenia about $678 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 44% 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 $26 million a year, or $746 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$790,000
$22
Rape
$1.5 million
$42
Robbery
$180,000
$5
Assault
$3.5 million
$99
Burglary
$430,000
$12
Theft
$1.6 million
$45
Vehicle theft
$550,000
$16
Arson
$44,000
$1
Vandalism
$910,000
$26
Total
$9.5 million
$268
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 Xenia 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 Xenia, OH average a SchoolGrade of B+: 69% of students test proficient, against 57% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Xenia on SchoolGrade
