Open Policing Data Hub

FBI agency record

Van Wert Police Department

City agencyOH0810100NIBRS since 2006LEMAS 2003

Van Wert County, Ohio

Serves ~10,599 residents · LEMAS survey

Crime trendsNIBRSLEMASPoliciesOpen dataPOP projects

See something wrong (website, links, data)? Report a data issue

Crime & staffing trends

No snapshot trend data is stored for this agency yet. Explore its full crime and employment history directly on the FBI Crime Data Explorer, which covers UCR summary data, NIBRS incidents, and police employment for ORI OH0810100.

NIBRS incident detail

NIBRS victims by offense · Jan 2021Dec 2024

Incident-based victim counts reported through NIBRS, from the FBI Crime Data Explorer.

Burglary: victim & offender age · 179 victims, 196 offenders
Victim sex
Female98 (55%)
Male81 (45%)
Victim race
White174 (97%)
Black or African American4 (2%)
Asian1 (1%)
Incident location
Residence/Home151 (73%)
Other/Unknown30 (15%)
Commercial/Office Building5 (2%)
Service/Gas Station4 (2%)
Hotel/Motel/Etc.3 (1%)
Highway/Road/Alley/Street/Sidewalk3 (1%)

Top 6 of 13 categories shown.

Victim–offender relationship
Otherwise Known25 (33%)
Relationship Unknown14 (19%)
Ex-Relationship (Ex-Boyfriend/Girlfriend)9 (12%)
Acquaintance8 (11%)
Spouse4 (5%)
Stranger4 (5%)

Top 6 of 14 categories shown.

Co-occurring offenses
Theft From Building9 (27%)
All Other Larceny7 (21%)
Destruction/Damage/Vandalism of Property5 (15%)
Simple Assault5 (15%)
Drug Equipment Violations2 (6%)
Aggravated Assault2 (6%)

Top 6 of 8 categories shown.

Open data

No open-data portal has been found for this agency. Discovery sweeps Socrata, ArcGIS, and CKAN portals on a schedule, so this can change. Know of a portal or dataset this agency publishes? Tell us.

Staffing

LEMAS 2003 survey
Full-time sworn
22
Part-time sworn
4
Full-time civilian
8
Part-time civilian
0
Total FT employees
30
Population served
10,599
Operating budget
$1,800,000

Source: BJS LEMAS 2003 (ICPSR) · all waves 1987–2020

FBI police employment

Employment counts for this agency are available through the FBI Crime Data Explorer.

Open data

No open data sources are catalogued for this agency yet. FBI reported-crime data is still available via the Crime Data Explorer link above.

POP conference activity

No POP conference submissions matched to this agency in our records.

Agencies like this one

Compared by size, crime mix, rates, and staffing within the same agency class · precomputed from FBI trend and NIBRS data. Methodology: agency-metrics/metrics-spec.md

Assessing a response? These agencies double as informal comparison groups: if your trend falls while comparable agencies hold steady, the case that your response worked is much stronger. See the project report template.