Night-time safety · Cleveland · data through November 2026

Is Cleveland safe at night?

51% of Cleveland's reported incidents happen between 6pm and 6am, and 22% of them fall between midnight and 6am. That share swings from 42% to 58% depending on which neighborhood you are in — which is the whole point: the question worth asking is not whether Cleveland is safe after dark, but where and by which route.

These figures describe when reported incidents happen, not how dangerous a street is. Somewhere with a night-time crowd reports more after dark because more people are there — that is a fact about footfall as much as about risk, and it is why the tables below show the count and the share side by side.

Most reported incidents after dark

Neighborhood	6pm–6am	Share	Index
1 Clark-Fulton	899	49%	33/100
2 Downtown	885	52%	37/100
3 Cudell	870	52%	36/100
4 West Boulevard	852	49%	33/100
5 Stockyards	726	57%	40/100
6 Glenville	710	49%	37/100
7 Broadway-Slavic Village	703	49%	38/100
8 Mount Pleasant	693	53%	40/100
9 Buckeye-Shaker Square	688	51%	40/100
10 Central	669	58%	43/100
11 Detroit Shoreway	666	51%	43/100
12 Brooklyn Centre	648	54%	42/100
13 Hough	605	53%	42/100
14 Ohio City	590	54%	48/100
15 Old Brooklyn	551	50%	45/100
16 Collinwood-Nottingham	504	50%	48/100
17 Jefferson	503	46%	47/100
18 Union-Miles	492	52%	48/100
19 North Shore Collinwood	492	52%	49/100
20 Buckeye-Woodhill	475	49%	47/100
21 Kinsman	470	50%	49/100
22 Tremont	447	50%	50/100
23 Fairfax	433	50%	49/100
24 Bellaire-Puritas	413	52%	54/100
25 Edgewater	413	48%	52/100

Changes most after dark

Ranked by the share of reported incidents that fall between 6pm and 6am, against a Cleveland median of 50%. A high share is not a high total — a quiet neighborhood whose few incidents mostly happen at night sits near the top — so the count is shown beside it.

Neighborhood	Night share	Incidents	Index
Central	58%	1,156	43/100
Stockyards	57%	1,272	40/100
Ohio City	54%	1,082	48/100
Brooklyn Centre	54%	1,205	42/100
Goodrich-Kirtland Park	53%	639	58/100
Hough	53%	1,148	42/100
Mount Pleasant	53%	1,318	40/100
Cudell	52%	1,664	36/100
Bellaire-Puritas	52%	792	54/100
North Shore Collinwood	52%	944	49/100
Downtown	52%	1,703	37/100
Union-Miles	52%	950	48/100

Least night-weighted

Where what gets reported is most concentrated in daylight hours.

Neighborhood	Night share	Incidents
Lee-Seville	42%	390
Kamm's	44%	494
Hopkins	45%	283
Euclid-Green	46%	775
Jefferson	46%	1,082
Lee-Harvard	47%	769
Edgewater	48%	853
West Boulevard	49%	1,748

Common questions

Is Cleveland safe to walk at night?

51% of Cleveland's reported incidents happen between 6pm and 6am, and 22% fall in the small hours between midnight and 6am. That is a description of when incidents are reported, not a verdict on the city: the figure varies far more between neighborhoods than it does between cities, from 42% to 58% here. The useful question is which neighborhood and which route, not whether a whole city is safe.

Which neighborhood in Cleveland has the most reported crime at night?

Clark-Fulton, with roughly 899 reported incidents between 6pm and 6am — 49% of its total. Somewhere busy usually tops this list because more people are out, so read it alongside the daytime picture on its own page rather than on its own.

Which neighborhood changes most after dark?

Central is the most night-concentrated in Cleveland: 58% of what is reported there happens between 6pm and 6am, against a Cleveland median of 50%. A high share does not mean a high total — a quiet neighborhood whose few incidents mostly happen at night will rank high here — which is why the table shows the count beside it.

How does SafeRoute use this at night?

The app scores each walking route against the same Cleveland Division of Police data, and can weight it toward the time you are actually walking rather than a flat all-day average. It also shows how much of each route runs on lit streets, and lets you share a walk.

Methodology

Every incident reported to the Cleveland Division of Police carries an occurrence time, which is bucketed into daytime (6am–6pm), evening (6pm–midnight) and the small hours (midnight–6am), split weekday against weekend, and weighted by severity so violence counts for more than shoplifting. A neighborhood's night share is the weighted proportion falling between 6pm and 6am; its night count is that share applied to its total. The city-wide chart weights each neighborhood by its own volume, so a busy centre is not averaged against a quiet suburb as though they were the same size.

Each incident reported to the Cleveland Division of Police is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every neighborhood we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its center, and normalize against citywide rates onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Boundaries are the city's own 34 Statistical Planning Areas, published by the same office as the crime data. Cleveland's neighborhoods sit further apart than any other city here, so the 1 km circles barely overlap and each figure describes its own area. Time-of-day charts use incident timestamps, severity-weighted. Pages regenerate as new data is published.