Business District, Irvine, CA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Business District is a neighborhood of 19,000 residents in Irvine, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Business District?
Business District earns an A- for property crime, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 53% of Americans live. Theft makes up 73% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B-, and vehicle theft grades A. Irvine as a whole grades A for property crime.
A-
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 804 of 1,000About as much property crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
47% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Business District as a whole, and 53% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Business District scores 804.
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 Business District, Irvine, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Business District in Irvine, 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 Business District
One weak spot: burglary. It grades B- in Business District, worse than in the neighborhoods where 88% of Americans live, against A- for property crime as a whole.
Thefts run high. Business District has thefts at more than double the US rate: 35.4 a year per 1,000 residents, against 13.1 nationally.
How Business District compares within Irvine
Most of Business District grades well for property crime: 92% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Property crime grades across Business District run from A to C.
92%
A or B 92%C 8%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Business District has less property crime than 6 of the 24 neighborhoods in Irvine. It covers much of the West Park and Business District areas and the UC Irvine, Turtle Rock, and Woodbridge areas.
Is property crime going up in Irvine?
Reported property crime in Irvine as a whole peaked in 2022 and has fallen 14% since, back near its 2019 level. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts stayed at about 14 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 11%.
Property crime, change since 2019
IrvineUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Irvine. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Irvine
Property, US
2016
+6%
+15%
2017
-1%
+12%
2018
-3%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+5%
-8%
2021
+10%
-10%
2022
+17%
-6%
2023
+13%
-7%
2024
+1%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Business District
CrimeGrade™ estimates Business District has about 48 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and about triple the rate for Irvine 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 Business District, about 73% of the total, followed by burglary and vandalism.
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 Irvine
The Irvine Police Department polices Business District; these figures cover Irvine as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Irvine as a whole, 36% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often in parking lots and garages: 55% of them, against 23% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (38%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (55%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (62%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Vandalism
Parking lots and garages (33%)
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; they are over one in five for burglary, car theft, theft from cars, vandalism, robbery, aggravated assault.
Property crime in Business District and nearby neighborhoods
Business District has less property crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only UC Irvine and Irvine Business Complex have less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Business District. 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, Business District is safer than 97% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Business District apart: it has 463 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 47.1 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. It also combines many stores and restaurants with a lot of parking-lot space: places with both tend to report more theft and car theft than places with only one of them, and car theft runs high here.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.463 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 99% 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.47.1 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 98% 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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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.2.4 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 91% 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 Business District
Property crime costs Business District about $5.8 million a year, or $307 per resident and about $655 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. Business District is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse 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.
