How far is the nearest police station?

Police stations and post offices from the USGS National Map structures inventory, at straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Only Ohio stations count: a department across the state line has no jurisdiction here.

1,229 of 1,233 ZIPs have data; median 1.9 mi.

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Under 1 mile · 375 1 to 2 miles · 250 2 to 4 miles · 162 4 to 7 miles · 254 7 miles or more · 188 No data · 4

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Source

USGS National Map structures: police stations (772 Ohio points: the inventory's 731 less 4 closed or duplicate records, with 4 wrong names corrected, plus 45 departments and sheriff's offices it lacks, placed from OpenStreetMap or the Census Bureau geocoder in September 2026) and post offices (1,130 Ohio points); straight-line miles from each ZIP's population-weighted center to the nearest Ohio station (Ohio stations only: a department across the state line has no jurisdiction here)

USGS structures service · OpenStreetMap · Census Bureau geocoder

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