Photo: Sixflashphoto · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident in New Albany rose 42% from 2023 to 2025
Violence and property crime split as 1.2 violent crimes and 13.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 3.7 and 19.6 in the rest of Ohio. On violence it beats 63% of U.S. towns; on property crime, only 41%. Its Safety Grade, B− (#166 of 296 graded towns in Ohio), rests on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of U.S. towns.
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 New Albany
New Albany reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 2 Ohio towns on New Albany’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Columbus (D). Plain Township has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
A job center
New Albany has 21,278 jobs based in town for 11,803 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is rising
Crime reported per resident rose 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 New Albany’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds New Albany’s grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (13.4) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | New Albany property | Rest of Ohio property | New Albany violent | Rest of Ohio violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 13.7 | 22.6 | 0.9 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 11.8 | 21.1 | 0.9 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 11.6 | 19.8 | 1.0 | 3.9 |
| 2025 | 16.5 | 17.8 | 1.6 | 3.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident rose 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 | New Albany | Rest of Ohio | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.9 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.9 | 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
New Albany’s 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 New Albany 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.
213 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.
19 violent and 194 property, as reported to the FBI by New Albany’s police.
No one died in a crash on New Albany’s roads in 2019–2023
That is fewer than 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 New Albany’s size would see about 4 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so New Albany’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.
New Albany and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Albany | B− | 1.2 | 13.4 |
| Columbus | D | 4.0 | 26.2 |
| Plain Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Plain Township has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Ohio towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Albany | B− | 1.2 | 13.4 |
| Salem | B− | 1.6 | 13.4 |
| Norton | C+ | 1.3 | 15.5 |
| Macedonia | C+ | 0.4 | 19.3 |
| Bucyrus | C+ | 1.5 | 16.3 |
| Brimfield Township | C+ | 0.7 | 20.8 |
The five graded Ohio towns closest to New Albany’s population (11,803), 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 New Albany. 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 New Albany’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (11,741 in 2025); our figure for New Albany is 11,803 (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 New Albany
Is New Albany, OH safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, New Albany reports less crime per resident than 51% of U.S. towns, a B− Safety Grade and #166 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 New Albany?
1.2 violent and 13.4 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 New Albany safer than Columbus?
Columbus reports more crime per resident than New Albany: Columbus grades D for safety and New Albany B−. Columbus’s police reported 4.0 violent and 26.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices New Albany?
New Albany’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “New Albany”. 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.