Cedar Crest, Dallas, TX Property Crime Rates and Maps
Cedar Crest is a neighborhood of 68,300 residents in Dallas, about 4 miles south of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Cedar Crest?
Cedar Crest grades C- for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 84% of Americans live. Theft makes up 38% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades C-, and vehicle theft grades D-. Dallas as a whole grades C for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 351 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
16% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Cedar Crest as a whole, and 84% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Cedar Crest scores 351.
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 Cedar Crest, Dallas, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Cedar Crest in Dallas, 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 Cedar Crest
Car thefts run high. Cedar Crest has car thefts at more than triple the US rate: 9.9 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
Burglaries happen at stores and businesses far more often than nationally. In Dallas as a whole, 51% of reported burglaries happen at stores and businesses, against 28% nationally.
How Cedar Crest compares within Dallas
High property crime is widespread across Cedar Crest: 61% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and 2% in areas graded A or B. Property crime grades across Cedar Crest run from B- to F.
37%61%
A or B 2%C 37%D or F 61%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Cedar Crest has less property crime than 10 of the 24 neighborhoods in Dallas. It covers much of the Cedar Crest and South Dallas Fair Park areas.
Is property crime going up in Dallas?
Reported property crime in Dallas as a whole has held about steady since 2019, within 4%. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 35 to 33 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 16%.
Property crime, change since 2019
DallasUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Dallas. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Dallas
Property, US
2016
-2%
+15%
2017
-8%
+12%
2018
-5%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+4%
-8%
2021
+4%
-10%
2022
+8%
-6%
2023
+15%
-7%
2024
-4%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Cedar Crest
CrimeGrade™ estimates Cedar Crest has about 39 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 64% more than the US as a whole and close to Dallas 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 Cedar Crest, about 38% of the total, followed by vehicle theft 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 Dallas
The Dallas Police Department polices Cedar Crest; these figures cover Dallas as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
Car thefts happen most often in parking lots and garages: 47% of them, against 23% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (51%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (47%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (54%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Stores and businesses (30%)
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 Cedar Crest and nearby neighborhoods
Cedar Crest has less property crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Cedar Crest. 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, Cedar Crest has more property crime than 81% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Cedar Crest apart: it has 15% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and 5.2 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places like that tend to report less car theft, yet car theft runs higher here than that would suggest.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.15% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 85% 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.5.2 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 77% 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. 62% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (27 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 62% 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.1.4 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 75% 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 Cedar Crest
Property crime costs Cedar Crest about $24 million a year, or $345 per resident and about $1,082 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.
