Bach is a neighborhood of 18,400 residents in Ann Arbor, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Bach?
Property crime in Bach sits near the national middle: an A-, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 54% of Americans live. Theft makes up 72% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A-, and vehicle theft grades A. Ann Arbor as a whole grades A for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 801 of 1,000About as much property crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
46% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Bach as a whole, and 54% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Bach scores 801.
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 Bach, Ann Arbor, MI at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Bach in Ann Arbor, 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 Bach
Car thefts are uncommon. Bach has car thefts at less than half the US rate: 1.1 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Bach compares within Ann Arbor
Every part of Bach where people live grades A or B for property crime on the national scale. Property crime grades across Bach run from A to B.
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Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Bach has less property crime than 2 of the 16 neighborhoods in Ann Arbor. It covers much of the Bach and Burns Park areas.
Is property crime going up in Ann Arbor?
Reported property crime in Ann Arbor as a whole has held about steady since 2019, within 7%. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 18 to 16 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
Ann ArborUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Ann Arbor. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Ann Arbor
Property, US
2016
-4%
+15%
2017
-2%
+12%
2018
-10%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-26%
-8%
2021
-18%
-10%
2022
-3%
-6%
2023
-4%
-7%
2024
-7%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Bach
CrimeGrade™ estimates Bach has about 28 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 17% more than the US as a whole and 55% more than Ann Arbor 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 Bach, about 72% 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 Ann Arbor
The Ann Arbor Police Department polices Bach; these figures cover Ann Arbor as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Ann Arbor as a whole, 70% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often in parking lots and garages: 40% of them, against 23% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (70%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (40%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (43%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (32%)
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 Bach and nearby neighborhoods
Bach has more property crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Angells and Abbot have the least property crime nearby.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Bach apart: it has 29.4 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 45 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby. It also combines many jobs with busy transit: places with both tend to report more theft than places with only one of them, and it runs high here.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.29.4 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 95% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Bach: B- (49 of 100).45 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 85% 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. 55% of residents here live in walkable areas.B+ (68 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 76% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.78 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 83% 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 Bach
Property crime costs Bach about $3.2 million a year, or $172 per resident and about $363 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. Bach is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
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.
