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Arrests in Ohio

Agencies in Ohio reported 173,191 arrests to the FBI in 2025, according to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.

Broken down here by the arrestee’s race, sex and age.

Read these figures with these

  • An arrest is an event, not a person. One person arrested three times in a year is three arrests, so these are not counts of individuals and a rate is not the share of a population that was arrested.
  • Race is recorded by the arresting agency, not reported by the person arrested.
  • The FBI publishes no ethnicity field with these arrests, so no Hispanic or Latino figure can be derived from them. Hispanic arrestees are recorded under a race, which is why the population each rate divides by is that race across all origins rather than the non-Hispanic part of it.
  • The FBI’s “Multiple” category is an arresting officer’s classification of one person. The Census Bureau’s “two or more races” is what a person says about themselves. They are not the same population, so that row carries a count and no rate.
  • Reporting to the FBI is voluntary, and the FBI publishes no participating-agency figure with arrest data, so a change in an arrest count cannot be separated from a change in who reported. The size of that is measurable from its own state figures: national arrests rose 8.3% between 2022 and 2023, while NY alone rose 121.8% — 204,565 arrests from one state, against 539,374 nationally. Counts are not comparable across that year.
  • A rate is not published where fewer than 20 arrests lie behind it. That is the convention US federal vital statistics use for an unreliable rate, and it matters most in the smallest groups: nineteen arrests among a few hundred residents produces a figure that one or two arrests would move by a third. The count is always shown.
  • Comparing the composition of arrestees with the composition of a population assumes equal offending and equal likelihood of arrest across groups. This data supports neither assumption, and nothing here implies either.
  • 344 arrests in 2025 carry no race at all — not even “unknown” — so the race rows total slightly less than the arrests recorded.

By race · 2025

Arrests per 100,000 residents of that group in Ohio, using Census Bureau estimates for the same year. The FBI’s legacy grouping, “Asian, Native Hawaiian, or Other Pacific Islander”, contains two of the rows below and is left out rather than counted twice.

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Arrests in Ohio by race, 2025
RaceArrestsShare of arrests
White101,17158.4%
Black or African American64,87137.5%
Unknown5,7973.3%
Asian1,0320.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native1780.1%
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander1420.1%

By sex · 2025

121,235
Male
2,077 per 100,000 residents
51,956
Female
857 per 100,000 residents

By age · 2025

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Arrests in Ohio by age band and sex, 2025
AgeSexArrests
Under 10Female8
Under 10Male61
Under 11Female0
Under 11Male0
10-12Female733
10-12Male1,176
11-12Female0
11-12Male0
13-14Female2,168
13-14Male3,304
15Female1,471
15Male2,606
16Female1,493
16Male2,820
17Female1,314
17Male2,748
18Female1,205
18Male2,857
19Female1,291
19Male2,934
20Female1,138
20Male2,783
21Female1,149
21Male2,697
22Female1,084
22Male2,759
23Female1,164
23Male2,714
24Female1,257
24Male2,867
25-29Female6,364
25-29Male14,487
30-34Female7,194
30-34Male16,238
35-39Female6,874
35-39Male15,583
40-44Female5,646
40-44Male13,111
45-49Female3,965
45-49Male9,751
50-54Female2,421
50-54Male7,121
55-59Female1,747
55-59Male5,343
60-64Female1,244
60-64Male3,881
65 and overFemale1,026
65 and overMale3,394
Juvenile OtherFemale0
Juvenile OtherMale0
Adult OtherFemale0
Adult OtherMale0

Sources

Compiled automatically from FBI Crime Data Explorer — Arrests and Census Population Estimates — state characteristics by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved

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