But there are no johns in Johnsville or New Lebanon. Not in the sense being used here. John in this case is the client of a prostitute, and none were caught and convicted from those western Montgomery County communities in 2007 and 2008, in the City of Dayton at least.
The Dayton PD maintains a neat little set of pdfs that list convictions for the various prostitution charges. The lists have names, ages, and street addresses. Which permits a quick bit of stat work to refute or confirm the urban legand that it's all sleazy suburban daddys who come into the city to get in touch with their freaky side thats causing the problem.
Well, yes and no.
Looking at the convictions by where the perp lived, one can see the split is pretty even between Dayton and the suburbs, with another smaller group from further afield than closer-in suburbia:

Breaking out the city residents who where convicted, by what part of the city, one can see the east side (east of the Great Miami and south of the Mad River) is the largest source of johns, with two neighborhoods taken together (Belmont + Eastern Hills...the Smithville Road neighborhoods north of US 35...) making up around 20% of all city residents convicted.


Next, a look at the suburbs. Kettering had the most convictions, followed by Trotwood, Huber Heights, Centerville, and Beavercreek.


(again, another eye chart).
So, yes, there is some truth that suburbanites use the city for vice. But so do city residents, with the east side being the biggest john-producing area, at least by convictions.
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