Central East Austin, Austin, TX Property Crime Rates and Maps
Central East Austin is a neighborhood of 5,630 residents in Austin, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Central East Austin?
Property crime is high in Central East Austin: an F, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 91% of Americans live. Theft makes up 45% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades C-, and vehicle theft grades F. Austin as a whole grades B- for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 40 of 1,000More property crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
9% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Central East Austin as a whole, and 91% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Central East Austin scores 40.
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 East Austin, Austin, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Central East Austin in Austin, 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 East Austin
Vehicle theft at more than triple the US rate. Central East Austin has 10.6 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
Property crime rates and types in Central East Austin
CrimeGrade™ estimates Central East Austin has about 51 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and 40% more than Austin 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 Central East Austin, about 45% 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 Austin
The Austin Police Department polices Central East Austin; these figures cover Austin as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Austin as a whole, 42% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often in parking lots and garages: 44% of them, against 23% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (43%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (40%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (34%)
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 East Austin and nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Central East Austin, 8 have less property crime. University of Texas and Hancock have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Central East Austin. 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, Central East Austin has more property crime than 89% of them.
Shops, walkability and density in Central East Austin
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Central East Austin apart: it has 23.8 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and a Walk Grade of B (58 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report more theft and car theft, and they run high here.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.23.8 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 92% 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 (58 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 70% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.32% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 69% 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.0.4 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 67% 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 East Austin
Property crime costs Central East Austin about $2.4 million a year, or $427 per resident and about $1,020 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.
