How safe is it living in Ada? According to a consumer report from ValuePenguin it's extremely safe.

The report rated Ada as 65th safest city in Ohio.

Analysts at ValuePenquin conducted a study to compare a variety of crime metrics across nearly 230 cities and villages in Ohio.

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The findings are a result of analyzing the most recent FBI crime statistics to determine how the towns stack up to each other. Predictably, many of the largest cities in the state ranked low on the list by fairly wide margins (the scores ranged from 67 to 5,381), but the safest town in the study fell into the "midsized" bucket unlike the other four small cities that rounded out the Top 5.

Here’s how ValuePenquin determined the rating. (It took into account Ohio Northern University students as Ada residents.)

“We collected data from the 2013 FBI crime statistics by city, which provides the most recent crime data available. We excluded towns with populations less than 5,000 because towns with smaller populations than that are much more sensitive to crime score fluctuations.

"The raw data report included violent crimes (murder/manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) and property crimes (burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson) from all law enforcement agencies that participate in the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting program.

“We standardized the data to reflect violent and property crimes per 100k, to account for population. We then aggregated a "crime score." In order to calculate this, we weighted violent crime at 90% and property crime at 10%; though property crime is far more prevalent, we figured that the violent crime data points are more relevant when calculating the relative safety of these cities.

To account for the fact that smaller cities with very slight upticks in crime are penalized more severely, we applied a logarithm to the population and multiplied it by the “crime score” to arrive at an “adjusted crime score.” We then ranked the cities relative to each other based on their adjusted crime scores.

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