Central, Cleveland, OH Property Crime Rates and Maps
Central is a neighborhood of 12,700 residents in Cleveland, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Central?
Central grades D- for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 90% of Americans live. Theft makes up 30% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades C-, and vehicle theft grades F. Cleveland as a whole grades D for property crime.
D-
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 110 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
10% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Central as a whole, and 90% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Central scores 110.
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 Central, Cleveland, OH at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Central in Cleveland, 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 Central
Vandalism 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 9.2 acts of vandalism a year per 1,000 residents; Central has 30.7.
Vehicle theft at more than triple the US rate. Central has 12.9 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Central compares within Cleveland
Every part of Central grades D or F for property crime on the national scale. Property crime grades across Central run from D to F.
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D or F 100%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Central has less property crime than 21 of the 34 neighborhoods in Cleveland. It covers much of the Downtown Cleveland, Central, and Hough areas and the Tremont, North Broadway, and Kinsmith areas.
Is property crime going up in Cleveland?
Reported property crime in Cleveland as a whole has held about steady since 2019, within 3%. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 45 to 44 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
ClevelandUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Cleveland. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Cleveland
Property, US
2016
+19%
+15%
2017
+10%
+12%
2018
-1%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-6%
-8%
2021
-11%
-10%
2022
-3%
-6%
2023
+7%
-7%
2024
-3%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Central
CrimeGrade™ estimates Central has about 74 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about triple the rate for the US as a whole and close to Cleveland 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.
Vandalism is the most common property crime in Central, about 42% of the total, followed by theft 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 Cleveland
The Cleveland Police Department polices Central; these figures cover Cleveland as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Cleveland as a whole, 71% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 40% of them, against 27% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (71%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (40%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (39%)
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 Central and nearby neighborhoods
Central has less property crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Central apart: it has 78 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and a Walk Grade of B (62 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report more theft, and it runs high here.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.2.6 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 92% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.78 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 83% 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.B (62 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 72% 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.9.6% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 77% 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 Central
Property crime costs Central about $7.8 million a year, or $610 per resident and about $1,549 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.
