Photo: Jf1123581321 · CC BY-SA 3.0The nearest town with a Safety Grade to Gates Mills is Mayfield Heights, 2 miles away
There are no FBI figures for Gates Mills by itself for 2023–2025, so the grade has nothing to work from. Drive 10 miles in any direction and you reach 17 towns with grades of their own.
For every 1,000 residents, about 1 property crime reported
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2022
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2022
Crimes reported to police in 2022 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And no violent crimes, in 2022. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
The years Gates Mills’ police reported
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| Year | Gates Mills | Rest of Ohio | Gates Mills | Rest of Ohio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.9 | 22.6 | 0.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | not reported | 21.0 | not reported | 3.7 |
| 2024 | not reported | 19.8 | not reported | 3.9 |
| 2025 | not reported | 17.8 | not reported | 3.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of Ohio. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.
2 crimes reported in 2022
2022 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
0 violent and 2 property, as reported to the FBI by Gates Mills’ police.
The nearest Ohio towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayfield Heights | A | 2 mi | 0.5 | 3.6 |
| Highland Heights | A | 3 mi | 0.1 | 5.3 |
| Pepper Pike | A | 4 mi | 0.1 | 4.1 |
| Lyndhurst | B | 4 mi | 1.2 | 11.9 |
| Richmond Heights | B | 5 mi | 1.0 | 10.5 |
| Kirtland | A+ | 6 mi | 0.2 | 0.7 |
Straight-line distance from the center of Gates Mills. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Gates Mills.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
No one died in a crash on Gates Mills’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 Gates Mills’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Gates Mills’s own rate (0.0) 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.
Gates Mills and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mayfield | — | — | — |
| Mayfield Heights | A | 0.5 | 3.6 |
| Chester Township | — | — | — |
| Willoughby Hills | — | — | — |
| Chesterland | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Mayfield reported to the FBI for 2024 and 2025 but not 2023. Chester Township has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Willoughby Hills reported to the FBI for 2023 but not 2024 or 2025. Chesterland is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
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 Gates Mills. 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 Gates Mills’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (2,231 in 2022); our figure for Gates Mills is 2,236 (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 Gates Mills
Is Gates Mills, OH safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Gates Mills. Gates Mills 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 Mayfield Heights (A, 2 mi), Highland Heights (A, 3 mi), Pepper Pike (A, 4 mi).
Who polices Gates Mills?
Gates Mills’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Gates Mills”. 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, 2022, 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.