South Fairmount Crime Rate Trends — Cincinnati
South Fairmount is a West Side hillside neighborhood along Queen City Avenue and Westwood Avenue, between Lower Price Hill and East Westwood. A mix of historic single-family homes and the Queen City Avenue corridor running along the lower hillside.
South Fairmount had a narrow April 2026 — two categories moved, both below trend, and nothing else broke out of the normal range. The shape is a continued, broad contraction across property crime rather than any isolated event.
Motor vehicle theft is the stronger of the two signals: the trailing 12-month total stands at 15, down 48.3% against the prior 12 months (29). Burglary also ran below trend, with 16 incidents over the current 12-month window against 24 in the year before — a 33.3% decline. The rest of the tracked categories were within range, with the notable exception of Other Larceny, which is up 56.0% year-over-year (39 vs. 25) — not flagged as an anomaly this month, but the one counter-current in an otherwise downward-trending neighborhood.
Notable signals 2
Motor Vehicle Theft
The past 12 months saw 15 incidents — about 46% below the 28 average from prior years.
Burglary
The past 12 months saw 16 incidents — about 47% below the 30 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.
No sustained shifts surfaced this month.
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
Below the volume threshold for a reliable forecast — too few incidents in recent months to project from.
Homicide
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Motor Vehicle Theft
Below the volume threshold for a reliable forecast — too few incidents in recent months to project from.
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
Below the volume threshold for a reliable forecast — too few incidents in recent months to project from.
How South Fairmount compares
Peer neighborhoods picked by closest 12-month motor vehicle theft 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 motor vehicle theft levels.”
Mt. Lookout
15 incidents over the past 12 months — 0 below South Fairmount's 15.
Open page →Riverside_Sedamsville
15 incidents over the past 12 months — 0 below South Fairmount's 15.
Open page →North Avondale
16 incidents over the past 12 months — 1 above South Fairmount's 15.
Open page →Recurring local terms (last 12 months)
Top terms in incident descriptions for South Fairmount, 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.