Beacon Hill, Seattle, WA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Beacon Hill is a neighborhood of 34,500 residents in Seattle, about 3 miles south of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Beacon Hill?
Beacon Hill grades F for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 94% of Americans live. Theft makes up 48% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades D+, and vehicle theft grades F. Seattle as a whole grades F for property crime.
F
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000More property crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
6% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Beacon Hill as a whole, and 94% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Beacon Hill scores 0.
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 Beacon Hill, Seattle, WA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Beacon Hill in Seattle, 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 Beacon Hill
Car thefts run high. Beacon Hill has car thefts at more than triple the US rate: 13.6 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Beacon Hill compares within Seattle
High property crime is widespread across Beacon Hill: 91% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and 3% in areas graded A or B. Property crime grades across Beacon Hill run from B- to F.
91%
A or B 3%C 6%D or F 91%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Beacon Hill has less property crime than 28 of the 67 neighborhoods in Seattle. It covers much of the Beacon Hill, Rainier Beach, and Columbia City areas.
Is property crime going up in Seattle?
Reported property crime in Seattle as a whole peaked in 2022 and has fallen 13% since, back near its 2019 level. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 50 to 49 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
SeattleUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Seattle. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Seattle
Property, US
2016
+9%
+15%
2017
+4%
+12%
2018
+4%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+3%
-8%
2021
+11%
-10%
2022
+13%
-6%
2023
+0%
-7%
2024
-2%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Beacon Hill
CrimeGrade™ estimates Beacon Hill has about 54 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and close to Seattle 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 Beacon Hill, about 48% 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.
Where and when property crime happens in Seattle
The Seattle Police Department polices Beacon Hill; these figures cover Seattle as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Seattle as a whole, 47% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 49% of them, against 27% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (47%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (49%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (33%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (31%)
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 Beacon Hill and nearby neighborhoods
Beacon Hill has less property crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Beacon Hill. 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, Beacon Hill has more property crime than 75% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Beacon Hill apart: it has 58 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby, and 4.7 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft, 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 Beacon Hill: C+ (44 of 100).58 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 90% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.4.7 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 81% 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.C+ (47 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 61% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.100% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 60% 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 Beacon Hill
Property crime costs Beacon Hill about $16 million a year, or $463 per resident and about $1,269 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.
