Ohio Ranked 37th Highest In America For Missing Persons

Ohio has the 37th highest number of missing persons cases per capita. That’s according to VivintSource.com, which analyzed statistics from the National Crime Information Center’s “Missing Person and Unidentified Person” system. The authors set out to determine which states have the most missing persons per capita and which have the least.

Ohio has 358 total missing persons, according to the report. That’s about 3.1 missing people per 100,000 residents. And while even one missing person is too many, that number pales in comparison to Alaska, where 41.8 people are missing per 100,000 residents.

However, Alaska's ranking is partly due to their relatively small population size. There are only 309 people missing in America's northern most state. In terms of sheer numbers of missing people, Ohio ranks towards the upper half of states.

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Here are the 10 states with the most missing persons per capita.

1. Alaska, 41.8
2. Arizona, 13
3. Oregon, 10.4
4. Vermont, 8.7
5. Washington, 8.7
6. Maine, 8.1
7. Wyoming, 7.8
8. Hawaii, 7.5
9. Montana, 6.8
10. New Mexico, 6.8

Those numbers dwarf states on the other end of the spectrum, such as Massachusetts and Rhode Island, where there are just 1.8 and 1.9 missing persons per 100,000 people, respectively. Georgia, Illinois and Wisconsin round out the five states with the lowest number per capita.

California, Florida and Texas have the highest total number of missing persons cases at 2,133, 1,252 and 1,246.

Across the country, males make up about 60 percent of all missing persons cases. The average age of people who go missing is about 34.

Patch national staffer Dan Hampton contributed to this report.