Carpenter, Ann Arbor, MI Property Crime Rates and Maps
Carpenter is a neighborhood of 7,340 residents in Ann Arbor, about 5 miles southeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Carpenter?
Property crime in Carpenter sits near the national middle: an A, safer than the neighborhoods where 58% of Americans live. Theft makes up 71% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A, and vehicle theft grades A+. Ann Arbor as a whole grades A for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 863 of 1,000About as much property crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
58% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Carpenter as a whole, and 42% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Carpenter scores 863.
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 Carpenter, Ann Arbor, MI at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Carpenter in Ann Arbor, 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
Property crime rates and types in Carpenter
CrimeGrade™ estimates Carpenter has about 20 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 16% less than the US as a whole and close to Ann Arbor 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 Carpenter, about 71% 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 Ann Arbor
The Ann Arbor Police Department polices Carpenter; these figures cover Ann Arbor as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Ann Arbor as a whole, 70% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often in parking lots and garages: 40% of them, against 23% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (70%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (40%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (43%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (32%)
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 Carpenter and nearby neighborhoods
Carpenter has less property crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only King and Angells have less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Carpenter. 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, Carpenter is safer than 91% of them.
Parking lots, night lighting and walkability in Carpenter
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Carpenter apart: it has 4.3 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 4.3% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally. Places with a lot of parking-lot space tend to report more theft; here theft sits near the national middle.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.4.3 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 97% 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
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. 88% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (18 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 77% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.4.3% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 74% 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 Carpenter
Property crime costs Carpenter about $940,000 a year, or $128 per resident and about $308 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. Carpenter 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.
