Brays Oaks, Houston, TX Property Crime Rates and Maps
Brays Oaks is a neighborhood of 10,800 residents in Houston, about 12 miles southwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Brays Oaks?
Brays Oaks grades D+ for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 86% of Americans live. Theft makes up 51% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades D+, and vehicle theft grades C. Houston as a whole grades C+ for property crime.
D+
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 297 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
14% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Brays Oaks as a whole, and 86% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Brays Oaks scores 297.
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 Brays Oaks, Houston, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Brays Oaks in Houston, 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 Brays Oaks
Burglary stands out among neighborhoods graded D for property crime. For the typical resident of a US neighborhood graded D for property crime, the figure is 3.9 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents; Brays Oaks has 8.0.
Car thefts happen in parking lots and garages far more often than nationally. In Houston as a whole, 48% of reported car thefts happen in parking lots and garages, against 23% nationally.
How Brays Oaks compares within Houston
Property crime varies widely across Brays Oaks: 21% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 53% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Brays Oaks run from B+ to F.
21%26%53%
A or B 21%C 26%D or F 53%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Brays Oaks has less property crime than 19 of the 63 neighborhoods in Houston. It covers much of the Sugarland, Meyerland, and Westchase areas.
Is property crime going up in Houston?
Reported property crime in Houston as a whole has held about steady since 2019, within 5%. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 44 to 42 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
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Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Houston. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Houston
Property, US
2016
-1%
+15%
2017
-5%
+12%
2018
-8%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-3%
-8%
2021
-4%
-10%
2022
+3%
-6%
2023
+1%
-7%
2024
-6%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Brays Oaks
CrimeGrade™ estimates Brays Oaks has about 51 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and close to Houston 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 Brays Oaks, about 51% of the total, followed by vandalism 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 Houston
The Houston Police Department polices Brays Oaks; these figures cover Houston as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Houston as a whole, 53% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (53%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (48%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (55%)
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 Brays Oaks and nearby neighborhoods
Brays Oaks has the most property crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Brays Oaks. 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, Brays Oaks is safer than 51% of them.
Parking lots, empty homes and walkability in Brays Oaks
Brays Oaks looks like a typical neighborhood on the traits that tend to go with property crime.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.1.6 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 78% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.8.8% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher 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. 50% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (27 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 61% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.6.1 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 69% 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 Brays Oaks
Property crime costs Brays Oaks about $4.0 million a year, or $371 per resident and about $949 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.
