Oakley Crime Rate Trends — Cincinnati
Oakley is an east-side neighborhood organized around Oakley Square at Madison Road and Markbreit Avenue, between Hyde Park and Pleasant Ridge. A mix of historic single-family homes and former industrial sites redeveloped as the Oakley Station mixed-use district.
April 2026 produced two signals in Oakley, both concentrated in a single category: other larceny registered both a one-month spike and a structural sustained shift — meaning the elevated count isn't just a noisy month but part of a longer-running pattern.
Other larceny's 12-month total reached 546 incidents, up 48.8% against the prior year's 367 and well above the multi-year baseline. Every other tracked category was within its normal range — motor vehicle theft is down 21.3% over 12 months, aggravated assault is down 80.0% (though off a small base of 10 prior-year incidents), and burglary and theft from vehicle both ran modestly below their prior-year levels. Robbery is the one counterpoint, up 66.7% year-over-year, though the raw counts remain low at 10 current vs. 6 prior.
Notable signals 1
Other Larceny
The past 12 months saw 546 incidents — about 73% above the 315 average from prior years.
All categories, last 24 months
Each panel: recent monthly count vs. trailing 12-month context. MoM is the most recent month vs. the one before; 12mo YoY compares the trailing year to the year before that.
What's been quietly true for a year
Spikes get attention. Sustained shifts shape policy. These are multi-quarter patterns where the past 12-month total differs meaningfully from the year before — they often precede the baseline resetting.
- Other Larceny is climbing.
The trailing 12-month count is 546, up 49% from 367 the year before. If the trend holds another quarter, it will pull the multi-year baseline up.
What next month likely looks like
Forecasts trained through April 2026, with a likely range we're 95% confident the actual count will fall inside. Categories with too little recent volume — or violent categories at the neighborhood level — show no forecast and are surfaced through signals above instead. See the methodology page for the gating rules.
Aggravated Assault
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Burglary
Homicide
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Motor Vehicle Theft
Other Larceny
Robbery
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Sexual Assault
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Theft from Vehicle
How Oakley compares
Peer neighborhoods picked by closest 12-month other larceny volume — a pragmatic v1 of peer matching. Demographic / housing-stock peer matching isn't built yet (we deliberately don't ingest income or race data alongside crime). Volume similarity has the right intuition: “neighborhoods experiencing comparable other larceny levels.”
Westwood
724 incidents over the past 12 months — 178 above Oakley's 546.
Open page →Downtown
340 incidents over the past 12 months — 206 below Oakley's 546.
Open page →West Price Hill
282 incidents over the past 12 months — 264 below Oakley's 546.
Open page →Do crime spikes here spill over to adjacent neighborhoods?
When Oakley has spiked motor vehicle theft historically (5 events on record), an adjacent neighborhood spiked the same category within 3 months 80% of the time. The strongest-travelling categories sit at the top of the table.
| Category | Spike events | Same-category spillover |
|---|---|---|
| Motor vehicle theft | 5 | 80% |
| Other larceny | 5 | 0% |
Each row shows Oakley's historical spike events for that category, and how often any of its 4 adjacent neighborhoods spiked the same category within the next 3 months. A high same-category rate suggests a shock that travels (e.g. theft crews moving across Cincinnati); a low rate means spikes here tend to be local to the neighborhood. Categories with fewer than 5 historical spike events are listed but their rates are suppressed.
Recurring local terms (last 12 months)
Top terms in incident descriptions for Oakley, excluding generic crime taxonomy. Useful as texture — what kinds of specifics show up here that don't show up elsewhere.
Hour-of-day, day-of-week, and seasonality
Distribution of bucketed incidents in this neighborhood across the full analysis window. Useful for routine context — shopping-strip thefts vs. late-night assaults read very differently when you can see when each typically happens.
How we built this page
Data → Anomalies → Forecast → Page
Incident data is pulled from Cincinnati Open Data — STARS Category Offenses post-2024-06-03 plus PDI Crime Incidents back to 2020 — mapped to 8 UCR-aligned categories (vandalism and arson aren't recoverable across the STARS migration boundary). Aggregated to Statistical Neighborhood Approximation × category × month.Anomalies are surfaced using strict thresholds (~p < 0.01). Forecasts are Prophet with low-count gating; violent categories at the neighborhood level skip the forecast and show rare-event / streak signals instead.
Spike rule: 12-mo total > baseline mean + 2.5σ AND ≥ 20 incidents AND 6-mo confirms. Drop rule: 12-mo total < baseline mean − 2.5σ AND baseline mean ≥ 20. Rare event: any incident in the last 90 days, no prior comparable in ≥ 5 years.