Downtown Cleveland, Cleveland, OH Property Crime Rates and Maps
Downtown Cleveland is a neighborhood of 13,100 residents in Cleveland, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Downtown Cleveland?
Downtown Cleveland grades D- for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 89% of Americans live. Theft makes up 40% 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 130 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
11% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Downtown Cleveland as a whole, and 89% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Downtown Cleveland scores 130.
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 Downtown Cleveland, Cleveland, OH at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Downtown Cleveland 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 Downtown Cleveland
Car thefts and thefts both run high. In Downtown Cleveland, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 22.0 car thefts and 67.4 thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 and 13.1 nationally.
How Downtown Cleveland compares within Cleveland
Every part of Downtown Cleveland grades D or F for property crime on the national scale. Property crime grades across Downtown Cleveland 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.
Downtown Cleveland has less property crime than 23 of the 34 neighborhoods in Cleveland. It covers much of the Downtown Cleveland, Central, and Hough 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 Downtown Cleveland
CrimeGrade™ estimates Downtown Cleveland has about 167 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than triple the rate for the US as a whole and more than double the rate for 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 Downtown Cleveland, about 40% 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 Downtown Cleveland; 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 Downtown Cleveland and nearby neighborhoods
Downtown Cleveland has less property crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Tremont and Fairfax have less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Downtown Cleveland. 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, Downtown Cleveland has more property crime than 56% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Downtown Cleveland apart: it has 652 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 51.1 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. It also combines many jobs with busy transit: places with both tend to report more theft than places with only one of them; here theft sits near the national middle.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.652 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.51.1 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. 91% of residents here live in walkable areas.A (87 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 90% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Downtown Cleveland: B- (48 of 100).109 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 97% 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 Downtown Cleveland
Property crime costs Downtown Cleveland about $17 million a year, or $1,260 per resident and about $2,351 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. Downtown Cleveland 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
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.
