Homicide Rates:
Ohio:
2019: 538 (11,700k, 4.6 per 100k)
2020: 820 (11,690k, 7.0 per 100k) – Highest since 1991
2021: Estimated to be 7.3 per 100k based on CDC & FBI data – Highest since 1981
Columbus, and Toledo had their highest homicides rates in history in 2021
Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Akron had their highest homicide rates in history in 2020.
Note that highest rate, means at least since 1960.
Columbus, OH:
1991: 139 (641k, 21.7 per 100k) former record for highest homicide rate
2018: 103 (891k, 11.6 per 100k)
2019: 106 (900k, 11.8 per 100k)
2020: 175, (906k, 19.3 per 100k)
2021 202, (907k, 22.3 per 100k) new record for highest homicide rate
2022: 140 (908k, 15.4 per 100k)
2023: 78 vs 64 in 2022 during the same time period. On track for 18.8 per 100k
Toledo, Ohio:
1980: 60 (355k, 16.9 per 100k) former record for highest rate
2007: 13 (317k, 4.1 per 100k) lowest rate since early 60s
2019: 35 (273k, 12.8 per 100k)
2020: 61 (271k, 22.5 per 100k)
2021: 70 (269k, 26.0 per 100k) new record for highest number and highest rate
2022: 66 (270k, 24.4 per 100k)
Cincinnati, OH:
1971: 81 (453k, 17.8 per 100k) former record for highest rate
1987: 66 (372k, 17.7 per 100k) – serial killer Donald Harvey killed 24 of these
1995: 50 (348k, 14.4 per 100k) worst spike in the 90s
1998: 28 (336k, 8.3 per 100k) beginning of three years of lower homicide rates
2001: 61 (327k, 18.7 per 100k) homicides explode alongside Timothy Thomas race riots, new record for highest rate
2002: 70 (323k, 21.7 per 100k)
2019: 73 (304k, 24.0 per 100k)
2020: 94 (306k, 30.7 per 100k) new record for the highest rate
2021: 94 (307k, 30.6 per 100k)
2022: 78 (312k, 25.0 per 100k)
2023: 39 vs 42 at the same time period in 2022.
Cincinnati homicides went way down from 1998 to 2000. They they exploded again after the Timothy Thomas race riots. Cincinnati is different than most similar cities because homicide rates have generally been higher in the 2000s and 2010s than they were in the 1990s.
Cleveland, OH:
Cleveland, Ohio set a new record for the highest homicide rate ever in 2020. This came down slightly in 2021, but homicides in the suburbs of Garfield Heights, Maple Heights, Parma and Warrensville Heights surged in 2021.
Suburban Cuyahoga County had 71 homicides in 2021 versus 48 in 2020.
1982: 195 (582k, 33.5 per 100k) former all time highest rate
2019: 118 (383k, 30.8 per 100k)`
2020: 179 (372k, 48.1 per 100k) new record for highest rate
2021: 171 (368k, 46.5 per 100k)
2022: 168 (371k, 45.2 per 100k)
2023: 92 in the first six months, on tract for a new all time record.
Note: Some media outlets are reporting even higher numbers for Cleveland in 2020.
Akron, Ohio:
1974: 48 ( 260k, 18.5 per 100k) former record for highest rate
2017: 42 (193k, 21.2 per 100k) new record for highest rate
2019: 33 (192k, 16.7 per 100k)
2020: 50 (191k, 26.2 per 100k) new record for homicide rate
2021: 42 (190k, 22.1 per 100k)
2022: 45 (189k, 23.9 per 100k)
