The Crime Indices range from 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime). Our crime rates are based on FBI data.
Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
Property crime includes the offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. The object of the theft-type offenses is the taking of money or property, but there is no force or threat of force against the victims.
| Cities with the Least Crime Near Defiance, Ohio | Crime Index |
| Brunersburg, OH | |
| Hicksville, OH | 14.9 |
| Ney, OH | 19.4 |
| Sherwood, OH | 23.6 |
| Defiance, OH | 27.4 |