Airline, Houston, TX Property Crime Rates and Maps
Airline is a neighborhood of 13,600 residents in Houston, about 9 miles north of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Airline?
Property crime is high in Airline: a C, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 82% of Americans live. Theft makes up 58% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades C, and vehicle theft grades C. Houston as a whole grades C+ for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 430 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
18% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Airline as a whole, and 82% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Airline scores 430.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Airline, Houston, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Airline in Houston, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about property crime in Airline
Vehicle theft at about triple the US rate. Airline has 8.9 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Airline compares within Houston
Areas graded C for property crime are home to 58% of residents in Airline; 13% live in areas graded A or B and 29% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Airline run from B to F.
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A or B 13%C 58%D or F 29%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Airline has less property crime than 34 of the 63 neighborhoods in Houston. It covers much of the North, Greater Greenspoint, and Oak Forest-Garden Oaks areas.
Is property crime going up in Houston?
Reported property crime in Houston as a whole has held about steady since 2019, within 5%. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 44 to 42 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
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Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Houston. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Houston
Property, US
2016
-1%
+15%
2017
-5%
+12%
2018
-8%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-3%
-8%
2021
-4%
-10%
2022
+3%
-6%
2023
+1%
-7%
2024
-6%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Airline
CrimeGrade™ estimates Airline has about 50 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and close to Houston as a whole.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in Airline, about 58% of the total, followed by vehicle theft and vandalism.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Property crime in Airline and nearby neighborhoods
Airline has less property crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Greater Heights has less.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Airline apart: it has 8% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and 16.9 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. It also combines many stores and restaurants with a lot of parking-lot space: places with both tend to report more theft and car theft than places with only one of them, and they run high here.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.8% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 92% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.2.6 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 91% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft. 90% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (20 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 72% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.16.9 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 84% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What property crime costs Airline
Property crime costs Airline about $5.2 million a year, or $385 per resident and about $1,246 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
