East Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA Property Crime Rates and Maps
East Bakersfield is a neighborhood of 16,900 residents in Bakersfield, about 2 miles east of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in East Bakersfield?
East Bakersfield grades F for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 95% of Americans live. Theft makes up 38% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades F, and vehicle theft grades F. Bakersfield as a whole grades C+ for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000More property crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
5% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than East Bakersfield as a whole, and 95% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. East Bakersfield scores 0.
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 East Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in East Bakersfield in Bakersfield, 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 East Bakersfield
Car thefts and burglaries both run high. In East Bakersfield, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 11.4 car thefts and 8.5 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 and 2.4 nationally.
How East Bakersfield compares within Bakersfield
Every part of East Bakersfield grades D or F for property crime on the national scale. Property crime grades across East Bakersfield 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.
East Bakersfield has less property crime than 0 of the 38 neighborhoods in Bakersfield. It covers much of the East Bakersfield, College Heights Baker Street, and La Cresta-Alta Vista areas and the Lakeview-Bakersfield, Oakridge, and Tyner Homes areas.
Is property crime going up in Bakersfield?
Reported property crime in Bakersfield as a whole has fallen 41% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 42 to 25 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 27%.
Property crime, change since 2019
BakersfieldUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Bakersfield. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Bakersfield
Property, US
2016
+9%
+15%
2017
-2%
+12%
2018
+1%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-8%
-8%
2021
-6%
-10%
2022
-5%
-6%
2023
-20%
-7%
2024
-41%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in East Bakersfield
CrimeGrade™ estimates East Bakersfield has about 43 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 80% more than the US as a whole and 40% more than Bakersfield 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 East Bakersfield, about 38% of the total, followed by vehicle theft and burglary.
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.
Property crime in East Bakersfield and nearby neighborhoods
East Bakersfield has the most property crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from East Bakersfield. 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, East Bakersfield has more property crime than 81% of them.
Shops, density and walkability in East Bakersfield
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, one sets East Bakersfield apart: it has 5.5 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places like that tend to report less theft and car theft, yet theft and car theft run higher here than that would suggest.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.5.5 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 74% 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.83% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 69% 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- (48 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 63% 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 East Bakersfield
Property crime costs East Bakersfield about $6.9 million a year, or $407 per resident and about $1,419 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. East Bakersfield is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower 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.
