Cincinnati's Safest ZIP Codes, Ranked by FBI Data (2026)

Four Cincinnati-area ZIP codes — Madeira (45243), Montgomery (45242), Harrison (45030), and Deer Park (45236) — share NeighborScore's maximum crime score of 95 out of 100, according to FBI Uniform Crime Reporting data reported by their individual municipal police agencies. Hamilton County shows the widest legitimate crime spread of any Ohio metro NeighborScore has analyzed, ranging across all five of its crime bands from 25 to 95.

How Hamilton County's Crime Scores Are Resolved

NeighborScore scores crime in a four-tier cascade, using the highest-resolution data available per ZIP. Cincinnati isn't one of the four cities with ZIP-level incident data (Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco), but Hamilton County's suburbs are unusually well covered by the next tier down: 41 of its 49 scored ZIP codes are individually mapped to a municipal police agency's FBI-reported crime data, rather than defaulting to one county-wide figure.

That coverage produces real variation — Hamilton County is one of the few metros in NeighborScore's dataset where all five crime bands (25, 45, 65, 80, and 95) appear across its ZIP codes, rather than compressing into one or two values. Ohio's statewide average crime score is 65; the national average is 63.

Cincinnati-Area ZIP Codes Ranked by Crime Score

1. Madeira (45243): crime 95, overall 94, school 93, median price $829,900 — view the 45243 profile
2. Montgomery (45242): crime 95, overall 93, school 91, median price $520,000 — view the 45242 profile
3. Harrison (45030): crime 95, overall 89, school 82, median price $375,000 — view the 45030 profile
4. Deer Park (45236): crime 95, overall 87, school 78, median price $301,000 — view the 45236 profile
5. Sharonville (45241): crime 65, overall 72, school 80, median price $448,375
6. Lockland (45215): crime 45, overall 61, school 79, median price $255,000

Why Crime Score and School Score Don't Always Move Together

One Hamilton County ZIP illustrates why NeighborScore reports crime and school scores separately rather than blending them into a single safety metric. Dry Run (45244) carries a crime score of just 25 — the lowest band in the county — but a school score of 90, among the highest in the metro. Its overall composite lands at 56, a number that hides two very different underlying signals: strong schools paired with a weak agency-reported crime rate. A buyer scanning only the overall score would miss both extremes.

For the underlying agency-level Uniform Crime Reporting figures, see the FBI Crime Data Explorer.

Bottom Line

Madeira, Montgomery, Harrison, and Deer Park all share Hamilton County's maximum 95/100 crime score, with Madeira (45243) leading on overall composite at 94 thanks to a 93 school score as well. Because Cincinnati's suburbs are unusually well mapped to individual police agencies, this ranking reflects real per-ZIP variation — not one county number applied uniformly, as is the case in many U.S. metros without agency-level FBI coverage.