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Mercer County Crime Statistics Ohio state

In the year 2007 there were a total of 691 crimes in Mercer County, Ohio. With a population of 41,246, there was 1 crime for every 59.7 people in the county. Out of the 691 crimes reported, 662 were crimes against property (burglery, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson) and 29 were violent crimes (murder, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery).

2007 Crime Statistics
Crime	Reported	Crime Rate*
Murder	0	0.00
Rape	8	19.40
Robbery	2	4.85
Assault	19	46.07
Burglary	95	230.33
Larceny	532	1289.82
Vehicle	35	84.86
Arson	0	0.0

The 2007 crime rate was 1,675.3 incidents per 100,000 people. A -23.8% change in the total crime rate from 2006 (2,198.7 incidents). There were 70.3 violent crimes reported per 100,000 people resulting in a -14.7% change (from 82.4 incidents). Property crimes changed -24.2% from (2,116.3) the previous year to 1,605.0 per 100,000 people.

Mercer County ranks #28 for violent crimes and #28 for crimes against property in the state. While it ranks #397 and #1,075 for violent and property related offenses respectively in the nation.

A snapshot of the most current crime statistics are shown in the chart to the left and historical criminal data is shown in the charts below.

Mercer County Criminal Records
Mercer County Jails

Year	Murder	Murder Rate*	Rape	Rape Rate*	Robbery	Robbery Rate*	Agg. Assault	Agg. Asslt Rate*
2006	0	0.0	12	29.1	3	7.3	19	46.1
2005	0	0.0	11	26.8	2	4.9	25	60.8
2004	0	0.0	11	26.8	3	7.3	24	58.5
2003	0	0.0	10	24.5	7	17.1	12	29.4
2002	0	0.0	3	7.3	5	12.1	11	26.7
2001	0	0.0	5	12.2	2	4.9	5	12.2
2000	0	0.0	1	2.4	1	2.4	0	0.0
1999	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	2	4.8
1998	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	5	12.2
1997	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
1996	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
1995	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
1994	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0

Year	Burglary	Burglary Rate*	Larceny	Larceny Rate*	Vehicle Theft	Vhcl Theft Rate*	Arson	Arson Rate*
2006	186	450.9	634	1536.9	53	128.5	0	0.0
2005	169	411.3	643	1564.7	40	97.3	0	0.0
2004	116	282.8	570	1389.7	28	68.3	1	2.4
2003	154	376.8	553	1353.2	31	75.9	0	0.0
2002	100	242.9	394	957.0	27	65.6	0	0.0
2001	65	158.5	85	207.3	3	7.3	0	0.0
2000	8	19.5	48	117.3	1	2.4	0	0.0
1999	23	55.6	41	99.1	0	0.0	0	0.0
1998	14	34.1	84	204.5	6	14.6	0	0.0
1997	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
1996	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
1995	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
1994	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0

*Crime Rate is based on number of reported cases per 100,000 population