Allston-Brighton, Brighton, MA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Allston-Brighton is a neighborhood of 64,400 residents in Brighton · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Allston-Brighton?
Property crime in Allston-Brighton runs higher than in most US neighborhoods: a B+, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 65% of Americans live. Theft makes up 62% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A-, and vehicle theft grades B. Brighton as a whole grades B+ for property crime.
B+
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 714 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
35% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Allston-Brighton as a whole, and 65% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Allston-Brighton scores 714.
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 Allston-Brighton, Brighton, MA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Allston-Brighton in Brighton, 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 Allston-Brighton
Thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Brighton as a whole, 52% of reported thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks, against 18% nationally.
Car thefts are uncommon. Allston-Brighton has car thefts at less than half the US rate: 1.00 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Allston-Brighton compares within Brighton
In Allston-Brighton, 68% of residents live in areas graded A or B for property crime, 15% in areas graded C and 17% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Allston-Brighton run from A to F.
68%15%17%
A or B 68%C 15%D or F 17%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Allston-Brighton has less property crime than 0 of the 2 neighborhoods in Brighton.
Is property crime going up in Brighton?
Reported property crime in Brighton as a whole has held about steady since 2019, within 1%. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts stayed at about 20 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
BrightonUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Brighton. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Brighton
Property, US
2016
+9%
+15%
2017
+6%
+12%
2018
+4%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+0%
-8%
2021
-8%
-10%
2022
-9%
-6%
2023
-3%
-7%
2024
+1%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Allston-Brighton
CrimeGrade™ estimates Allston-Brighton has about 21 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 11% less than the US as a whole and 36% more than Brighton 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 Allston-Brighton, about 62% of the total, followed by vandalism and burglary.
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.
Where and when property crime happens in Brighton
The Boston Police Department polices Allston-Brighton; these figures cover Boston as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Boston as a whole, 66% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 55% of them, against 27% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (66%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (55%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (52%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (41%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Property crime in Allston-Brighton and nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Allston-Brighton, 7 have less property crime. Brookline Village and Washington Square have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Allston-Brighton. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Allston-Brighton is safer than 95% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Allston-Brighton apart: it has 40 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby, and 76 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places with both tend to report more theft than places with only one of them, and it runs high here.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Allston-Brighton: C (38 of 100).40 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 83% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.76 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 82% 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. 67% of residents here live in walkable areas.B+ (72 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 78% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.93% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 78% 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 Allston-Brighton
Property crime costs Allston-Brighton about $8.9 million a year, or $137 per resident and about $301 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
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.
