Berkeley Hills, Berkeley, CA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Berkeley Hills is a neighborhood of 14,800 residents in Berkeley, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Berkeley Hills?
Property crime is high in Berkeley Hills: a B-, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 77% of Americans live. Theft makes up 59% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B, and vehicle theft grades C+. Berkeley as a whole grades F for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 541 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
23% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Berkeley Hills as a whole, and 77% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Berkeley Hills scores 541.
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 Berkeley Hills, Berkeley, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Berkeley Hills in Berkeley, 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 Berkeley Hills
Acts of vandalism are uncommon. Berkeley Hills has acts of vandalism at less than half the US rate: 2.0 a year per 1,000 residents, against 5.5 nationally.
How Berkeley Hills compares within Berkeley
In Berkeley Hills, 62% of residents live in areas graded A or B for property crime, 21% in areas graded C and 17% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Berkeley Hills run from B+ to D-.
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A or B 62%C 21%D or F 17%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Berkeley Hills has less property crime than 10 of the 12 neighborhoods in Berkeley. It covers much of the Berkeley Hills area and the North Berkeley, Kensington-San Francisco, and Thousand Oaks areas.
Is property crime going up in Berkeley?
Reported property crime in Berkeley as a whole has held about steady since 2019, within 1%. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 51 to 50 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 14%.
Property crime, change since 2019
BerkeleyUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Berkeley. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Berkeley
Property, US
2016
-12%
+15%
2017
-3%
+12%
2018
-14%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-12%
-8%
2021
+8%
-10%
2022
+7%
-6%
2023
+16%
-7%
2024
-0%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Berkeley Hills
CrimeGrade™ estimates Berkeley Hills has about 18 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 26% less than the US as a whole and 68% less than Berkeley 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 Berkeley Hills, about 59% of the total, followed by burglary 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.
Property crime in Berkeley Hills and nearby neighborhoods
Berkeley Hills has less property crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Kensington-San Francisco has less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Berkeley Hills. 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, Berkeley Hills has more property crime than 57% of them.
Night lighting, shops and walkability in Berkeley Hills
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Berkeley Hills apart: it has 2.8 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 0.1 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places like that tend to report less theft and car theft, yet theft and car theft run higher here than that would suggest.
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.94% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 96% 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.2.8 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 92% 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. 72% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (23 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 68% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.0.1 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 87% 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 Berkeley Hills
Property crime costs Berkeley Hills about $1.9 million a year, or $129 per resident and about $349 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. Berkeley Hills 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
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.
