Belair-Edison, Baltimore, MD Property Crime Rates and Maps
Belair-Edison is a neighborhood of 16,500 residents in Baltimore, about 3 miles northeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Belair-Edison?
Belair-Edison grades F for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 98% of Americans live. Theft makes up 39% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B, and vehicle theft grades F. Baltimore 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
2% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Belair-Edison as a whole, and 98% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Belair-Edison 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 Belair-Edison, Baltimore, MD at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Belair-Edison in Baltimore, 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 Belair-Edison
Thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Baltimore as a whole, 72% of reported thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks, against 18% nationally.
Car thefts run high. Belair-Edison has car thefts at more than triple the US rate: 10.5 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Belair-Edison compares within Baltimore
Every part of Belair-Edison grades D or F for property crime on the national scale.
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D or F 100%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Belair-Edison has less property crime than 1 of the 55 neighborhoods in Baltimore. It covers much of the Belair-Edison, Berea, and Monument Street areas.
Is property crime going up in Baltimore?
Reported property crime in Baltimore as a whole has held about steady since 2019, within 4%. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 43 to 42 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 19%.
Property crime, change since 2019
BaltimoreUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Baltimore. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Baltimore
Property, US
2016
+11%
+15%
2017
+14%
+12%
2018
+4%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-27%
-8%
2021
-34%
-10%
2022
-22%
-6%
2023
+18%
-7%
2024
-4%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Belair-Edison
CrimeGrade™ estimates Belair-Edison 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 Baltimore 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 Belair-Edison, about 39% of the total, followed by vandalism and vehicle theft.
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 Baltimore
The Baltimore Police Department polices Belair-Edison; these figures cover Baltimore as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Baltimore as a whole, 70% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 72% of them, against 27% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (70%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (72%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (72%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (44%)
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 Belair-Edison and nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Belair-Edison, 9 have less property crime. Lauraville and Monument Street have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Belair-Edison. 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, Belair-Edison has more property crime than 94% of them.
Jobs, parking lots and walkability in Belair-Edison
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Belair-Edison apart: it has 5 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 0.2 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places like that tend to report less theft, yet theft runs higher here than that would suggest.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.5 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 97% 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.0.2 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower 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 (39 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 55% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.10.3% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 81% 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 Belair-Edison
Property crime costs Belair-Edison about $6.8 million a year, or $413 per resident and about $1,014 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. Belair-Edison is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower 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
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.
