Photo: Arnold H Berger · CC BY-SA 3.0Reported crime per resident in Bedford Heights fell 40% from 2023 to 2025
Both towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. Taking everything together, Bedford Heights scores C+ (#214 of 296 graded towns in Ohio): more crime per resident than 62% of U.S. towns, measured on crimes its police reported between 2023 and 2025. Its police logs show 1.2 violent crimes and 19.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the rest of Ohio the numbers are 3.7 and 19.6.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of OH” is every other Ohio city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Bedford Heights
2 of the 2 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 4 Ohio towns on Bedford Heights’ borders, 2 have a Safety Grade: Bedford (A−), Solon (B+). Oakwood has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Maple Heights reported to the FBI for 2023 but not 2024 or 2025. Neighbors ↓
A job center
Bedford Heights has 9,518 jobs based in town for 10,691 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Bedford Heights’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Bedford Heights’ grade up; property crime pulls it down.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Bedford Heights property | Rest of Ohio property | Bedford Heights violent | Rest of Ohio violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 25.4 | 22.6 | 3.6 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 23.6 | 21.0 | 1.1 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 20.1 | 19.8 | 1.0 | 3.9 |
| 2025 | 13.2 | 17.9 | 1.6 | 3.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Ohio.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Bedford Heights | Rest of Ohio | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.1 | 3.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.0 | 3.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.6 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Bedford Heights’ police reported 40 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.2 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.7 in the rest of Ohio and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Bedford Heights per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
159 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
17 violent and 142 property, as reported to the FBI by Bedford Heights’ police.
Two people died in crashes on Bedford Heights’s roads in 2019–2023
Bedford Heights had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people died; 1 was a pedestrian. Most of these deaths (2 of 2) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is about what is typical for Ohio towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (6.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Bedford Heights’s size would see about 4 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Bedford Heights’s own rate (3.7) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Bedford Heights and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedford Heights | C+ | 1.2 | 19.0 |
| Bedford | A− | 0.9 | 6.1 |
| Oakwood | — | — | — |
| Solon | B+ | 0.8 | 8.0 |
| Maple Heights | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Oakwood has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Maple Heights reported to the FBI for 2023 but not 2024 or 2025.
Ohio towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedford Heights | C+ | 1.2 | 19.0 |
| Vermilion | A+ | 0.2 | 2.8 |
| Tipp City | A− | 0.2 | 9.3 |
| London | B+ | 0.9 | 8.0 |
| Reading | C | 2.8 | 20.8 |
| Heath | D | 1.6 | 39.5 |
The five graded Ohio towns closest to Bedford Heights’ population (10,691), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Bedford Heights. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Bedford Heights’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (10,735 in 2025); our figure for Bedford Heights is 10,691 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Bedford Heights
Is Bedford Heights, OH safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Bedford Heights reports more crime per resident than 62% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #214 of 296 in Ohio. Its police reported 1.2 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.7 in the rest of Ohio and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Bedford Heights?
1.2 violent and 19.0 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Ohio reports 3.7 and 19.6; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is Bedford Heights safer than Bedford?
Bedford reports less crime per resident than Bedford Heights: Bedford grades A− for safety and Bedford Heights C+. Bedford’s police reported 0.9 violent and 6.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Bedford Heights?
Bedford Heights’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Bedford Heights”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.