Ben Hill, Atlanta, GA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Ben Hill is a neighborhood of 10,100 residents in Atlanta, about 9 miles southwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Ben Hill?
Property crime is high in Ben Hill: a B-, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 76% of Americans live. Theft makes up 43% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B+, and vehicle theft grades C+. Atlanta as a whole grades B- for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 555 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
24% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Ben Hill as a whole, and 76% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Ben Hill scores 555.
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 Ben Hill, Atlanta, GA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Ben Hill in Atlanta, 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 Ben Hill
Car thefts run high. Ben Hill has car thefts at more than double the US rate: 6.0 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Ben Hill compares within Atlanta
Areas graded C for property crime are home to 48% of residents in Ben Hill; 49% live in areas graded A or B and 3% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Ben Hill run from B+ to F.
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A or B 49%C 48%D or F 3%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Ben Hill has less property crime than 27 of the 35 neighborhoods in Atlanta. It covers much of the Sandtown-Southeastern Atlanta, Adams Park, and Ben Hill areas.
Property crime rates and types in Ben Hill
CrimeGrade™ estimates Ben Hill has about 31 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 31% more than the US as a whole and 30% less than Atlanta 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 Ben Hill, about 43% 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 Atlanta
The Atlanta Police Department polices Ben Hill; these figures cover Atlanta as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Atlanta as a whole, 63% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often at homes: 55% of them, against 33% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (63%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (55%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (42%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (43%)
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 Ben Hill and nearby neighborhoods
Ben Hill has the least property crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Ben 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, Ben Hill has more property crime than 51% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Ben Hill apart: it has a Walk Grade of F (6 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 3.1 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places like that tend to report less theft, yet theft runs higher here than that would suggest.
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. 100% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.F (6 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 97% 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.3.1 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 91% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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.99% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 90% 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.13% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 88% 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 Ben Hill
Property crime costs Ben Hill about $2.5 million a year, or $251 per resident and about $617 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.
