John McSweeney House · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainThe crimes the grade counts fell 40% per resident in Wooster from 2023 to 2025
Overall, Wooster grades C for safety (#238 of 296 graded towns in Ohio): more crime per resident than 73% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported in 2023–2025. Still, each year brought 2.6 violent crimes and 20.0 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (3.7 and 19.6 in the rest of Ohio). It has more violent crime than 67% of U.S. towns, and more property crime than 77%.
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 Wooster
A job center
Wooster has 20,203 jobs based in town for 27,115 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 Wooster’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.6) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) 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 | Wooster property | Rest of Ohio property | Wooster violent | Rest of Ohio violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 23.7 | 22.6 | 2.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 25.1 | 21.0 | 2.6 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 20.7 | 19.8 | 2.9 | 3.9 |
| 2025 | 14.3 | 17.9 | 2.3 | 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 | Wooster | Rest of Ohio | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.7 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.9 | 3.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.3 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Wooster’s police reported 207 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.6 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 Wooster 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.
446 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.
61 violent and 385 property, as reported to the FBI by Wooster’s police.
Five people died in crashes on Wooster’s roads in 2019–2023
Wooster had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died; 2 were pedestrians.
That is about what is typical for Ohio towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (4.7 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Wooster’s size would see about 6 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Wooster’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.
Wooster and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wooster | C | 2.6 | 20.0 |
| Wooster Township | — | — | — |
| Wayne Township | — | — | — |
| Franklin Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Wooster Township, Wayne Township and Franklin Township have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Ohio towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wooster | C | 2.6 | 20.0 |
| Genoa Township | A+ | 0.1 | 3.0 |
| Avon Lake | A | 0.2 | 3.2 |
| Madison Township | A | 0.6 | 2.8 |
| Troy | B | 1.0 | 9.4 |
| Kent | B− | 1.6 | 11.0 |
The five graded Ohio towns closest to Wooster’s population (27,115), 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 Wooster. 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 Wooster’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (26,922 in 2025); our figure for Wooster is 27,115 (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 Wooster
Is Wooster, OH safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Wooster reports more crime per resident than 73% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #238 of 296 in Ohio. Its police reported 2.6 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 Wooster?
2.6 violent and 20.0 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.
How many homicides were there in Wooster in 2025?
Wooster’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Wooster?
Wooster’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Wooster”. 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.