State guide

Restaurant health inspection grades in Ohio

Coverage: 8 of 88 counties · Hamilton, Franklin, Montgomery +5 more · more coming

GradeLocal lists 12,311 Ohio restaurants. Their average score is 84.7, a B. This guide explains who inspects them, what the results mean and how the grades break down.

12,311restaurants listed

84.7 · Baverage score

8counties covered

Oct 29, 2026latest inspection date

See every Ohio grade

Who inspects restaurants in Ohio

Cincinnati Health Department, Columbus Public Health, Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County, and the Ashland, Greene, Holmes, Mahoning and Sandusky county health departments. Violation counts.

Coverage: 8 of 88 counties. All sources

What Ohio publishes

The agencies behind our Ohio listings publish violation counts. None of them publish a score out of 100, so every Ohio score on GradeLocal is a GradeLocal score, worked out from the official result.

How GradeLocal grades Ohio restaurants

For violation counts, we count every violation in the latest inspection. None is an A, 1 or 2 is a B, 3 to 5 is a C, and 6 or more is a D. An emergency closure order is also a D.

Results with no score of their own get a set score for each letter: A is 95, B is 85, C is 72 and D is 50.

There are four letters, A to D, with no F. The same rule applies in every state, and the cutoffs are never adjusted for a state, county or city. We always use the latest inspection.

How grades work has the full rules.

Most common official results in our Ohio data, and the letter each became
Official result	Letter	Listings
0 violations	A	6,052
1 violation	B	1,943
2 violations	B	1,347
3 violations	C	879
4 violations	C	565
5 violations	C	410
6 violations	D	281
7 violations	D	222

How Ohio restaurants grade

The latest grade for each of the 12,311 listings.

6,052

49.2% · grade A

3,290

26.7% · grade B

1,854

15.1% · grade C

1,115

9.1% · grade D

Inspection dates in our Ohio data run from Nov 10, 2015 to Oct 29, 2026. 8,920 of the 12,311 listings (72.5%) were inspected in the 12 months before Oct 29, 2026, our latest record. A restaurant may have been inspected again since.

Top-rated places in Ohio

Every A-grade place in our Ohio data gets the same GradeLocal score (95), so this list shows the ten most recently inspected A-grade places, one per name.

A grade shows one inspection on one day. Check the official record linked on each page.

Counties in Ohio

Every county with at least one listing. Pick one to see its restaurants.

County	Restaurants	Average
Ashland County	308	83.2 · B
Franklin County	3,034	90.8 · A
Greene County	726	79.1 · C
Hamilton County	4,474	80.1 · B
Holmes County	255	83.4 · B
Mahoning County	861	80.4 · B
Montgomery County	2,397	89.5 · B
Sandusky County	256	82.8 · B

Questions about Ohio grades

Who inspects restaurants in Ohio?

Cincinnati Health Department, Columbus Public Health, Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County, and the Ashland, Greene, Holmes, Mahoning and Sandusky county health departments. Violation counts.

What does Ohio publish: a score, a letter or something else?

The agencies behind our Ohio listings publish violation counts. None of them publish a score out of 100, so every Ohio score on GradeLocal is a GradeLocal score, worked out from the official result.

How does GradeLocal grade restaurants in Ohio?

For violation counts, we count every violation in the latest inspection. None is an A, 1 or 2 is a B, 3 to 5 is a C, and 6 or more is a D. An emergency closure order is also a D. Results with no score of their own get a set score for each letter: A is 95, B is 85, C is 72 and D is 50. We always use the latest inspection.

How many Ohio restaurants are on GradeLocal?

12,311 restaurants in 8 counties. The average score is 84.7, a B. 49.2% have an A.

How current are the Ohio grades?

Inspection dates in our Ohio data run from Nov 10, 2015 to Oct 29, 2026. We update each state’s records regularly, but there is always a delay, and a restaurant may have been inspected again since. For the latest official report, follow the agency link on each restaurant’s page.