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Safety in Berlin Heights · Not graded

Safety in Berlin Heights: figures, but no grade

Of the graded towns, Huron is the closest, at A. There are no FBI figures for Berlin Heights by itself for 2023–2025, so the grade has nothing to work from.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Ohio towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
HuronA6 mi0.63.6
NorwalkB+8 mi0.96.7
VermilionA+11 mi0.22.8
Perkins TownshipC12 mi1.024.6
OberlinB−14 mi1.613.5
AmherstB14 mi1.28.8

Straight-line distance from the center of Berlin Heights. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Berlin Heights.

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

On the roads

No one died in a crash on Berlin Heights’s roads in 2019–2023

That is about what is typical for Ohio towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (9.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Berlin Heights’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Berlin Heights’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.

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people died in crashes, 2019–2023
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pedestrians among them
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cyclists among them
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per 100,000 a year · Ohio towns of 2,500–5,000: 9.6

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.

Next door

Berlin Heights and its neighbors

Berlin Heights
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

How to read these numbers

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.
  • A county agency covers a wide area. Its totals mix many communities, so they say little about any one of them.
  • 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 Berlin Heights

Is Berlin Heights, OH safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Berlin Heights. Berlin Heights has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on. The nearest Ohio towns with a grade are Huron (A, 6 mi), Norwalk (B+, 8 mi), Vermilion (A+, 11 mi).

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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 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.