Benton Park, Bakersfield, CA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Benton Park is a neighborhood of 13,100 residents in Bakersfield, about 2 miles south of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Benton Park?
Benton Park grades F for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 91% of Americans live. Theft makes up 47% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades F, and vehicle theft grades F. Bakersfield as a whole grades C+ for property crime.
F
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 33 of 1,000More property crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
9% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Benton Park as a whole, and 91% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Benton Park scores 33.
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 Benton Park, Bakersfield, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Benton Park in Bakersfield, 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 Benton Park
Burglaries run high for a neighborhood with an F for property crime. Benton Park has 8.5 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a US neighborhood graded F for property crime, the figure is 3.4.
Vehicle theft at more than triple the US rate. Benton Park has 11.2 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Benton Park compares within Bakersfield
Every part of Benton Park grades D or F for property crime on the national scale. Property crime grades across Benton Park run from D to F.
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D or F 100%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Benton Park has less property crime than 7 of the 38 neighborhoods in Bakersfield. It covers much of the Spice Tract, Stonegate, and Stone Meadows areas and the Oleander Sunset, Park Stockdale, and Benton Park areas.
Is property crime going up in Bakersfield?
Reported property crime in Bakersfield as a whole has fallen 41% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 42 to 25 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 27%.
Property crime, change since 2019
BakersfieldUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Bakersfield. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Bakersfield
Property, US
2016
+9%
+15%
2017
-2%
+12%
2018
+1%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-8%
-8%
2021
-6%
-10%
2022
-5%
-6%
2023
-20%
-7%
2024
-41%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Benton Park
CrimeGrade™ estimates Benton Park has about 49 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and 60% more than Bakersfield 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 Benton Park, about 47% of the total, followed by vehicle theft 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 Bakersfield
The Bakersfield Police Department polices Benton Park; these figures cover Bakersfield as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Bakersfield as a whole, 36% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often in parking lots and garages: 35% of them, against 23% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (44%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (35%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (34%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (36%)
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 Benton Park and nearby neighborhoods
Benton Park has more property crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Stockdale Greens and Laurelglen have the least property crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Benton Park. 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, Benton Park has more property crime than 91% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, one sets Benton Park apart: it has 23.8 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft and car theft, and they run high here.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.23.8 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 92% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.28% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 72% 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. 68% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (28 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 59% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.23 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 62% 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 Benton Park
Property crime costs Benton Park about $5.7 million a year, or $432 per resident and about $1,517 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.
