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Safety in Richwood · Not graded

Crime reported in Richwood, OH

Richwood has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on.

Violent crimes
4
reported to the FBI, 2022
Property crimes
40
reported to the FBI, 2022
Nearest graded town
15 mi
Marysville (B)
1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 17 property crimes reported

And about 2 violent crimes, in 2022. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

Property crime (16.7)Violent crime (1.7)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2022

Richwood1.7
Rest of OH4.0
U.S. (FBI)4.0

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2022

Richwood16.7
Rest of OH22.6
U.S. (FBI)20.0

Crimes reported to police in 2022 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

By year

The years Richwood’s police reported

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.

Show as a table
YearRichwoodRest of OhioRichwoodRest of Ohio
202216.722.61.74.0
2023not reported21.0not reported3.7
2024not reported19.8not reported3.9
2025not reported17.8not reported3.5

Crimes per 1,000 residents

What gets reported

44 crimes reported in 2022

4 violent and 40 property, as reported to the FBI by Richwood’s police.

2022 offenses reported

Larceny / theft35
Burglary4
Vehicle theft1
Aggravated assault2
Robbery0
Rape2
Homicide0
Arson0
4
violent crimes
40
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Ohio towns with a Safety Grade

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

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
MarysvilleB15 mi0.710.7
MarionC15 mi3.913.2
DelawareB15 mi1.89.1
PowellA−21 mi0.48.1
Plain CityA+22 mi0.41.1
KentonC22 mi2.616.5

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

On the roads

No one died in a crash on Richwood’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 Richwood’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Richwood’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.

0
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
0.0
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

Richwood and its neighbors

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

Richwood
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty

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

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.
  • One number for all of Richwood. 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 Richwood’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (2,398 in 2022); our figure for Richwood is 2,640 (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 Richwood

Is Richwood, OH safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Richwood. Richwood 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 Marysville (B, 15 mi), Marion (C, 15 mi), Delaware (B, 15 mi).

Who polices Richwood?

Richwood’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Richwood”. 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.