Eastside Lansing, Lansing, MI Property Crime Rates and Maps
Eastside Lansing is a neighborhood of 14,500 residents in Lansing, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Eastside Lansing?
Eastside Lansing earns a B for property crime, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 70% of Americans live. Theft makes up 55% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B, and vehicle theft grades B. Lansing as a whole grades B+ for property crime.
B
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 656 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
30% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Eastside Lansing as a whole, and 70% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Eastside Lansing scores 656.
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 Eastside Lansing, Lansing, MI at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Eastside Lansing in Lansing, 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 Eastside Lansing
Vehicle theft at more than double the US rate. Eastside Lansing has 7.0 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Eastside Lansing compares within Lansing
Most of Eastside Lansing grades well for property crime: 80% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Property crime grades across Eastside Lansing run from B+ to C.
80%20%
A or B 80%C 20%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Eastside Lansing has less property crime than 3 of the 8 neighborhoods in Lansing. It covers much of the Eastside Lansing area and the Old Town area.
Is property crime going up in Lansing?
Reported property crime in Lansing as a whole has fallen 14% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 29 to 25 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 13%.
Property crime, change since 2019
LansingUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Lansing. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Lansing
Property, US
2016
+0%
+15%
2017
+6%
+12%
2018
+6%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+12%
-8%
2021
-9%
-10%
2022
-5%
-6%
2023
-1%
-7%
2024
-14%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Eastside Lansing
CrimeGrade™ estimates Eastside Lansing has about 47 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and 45% more than Lansing 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 Eastside Lansing, about 55% of the total, followed by vandalism 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 Lansing
The Lansing Police Department polices Eastside Lansing; these figures cover Lansing as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Lansing as a whole, 68% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often at homes: 38% of them, against 33% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (68%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (38%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (42%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (46%)
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 Eastside Lansing and nearby neighborhoods
Eastside Lansing has more property crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Abbot and Downtown Village of Holly have the least property crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Eastside Lansing. 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, Eastside Lansing is safer than 59% of them.
Parking lots, shops and walkability in Eastside Lansing
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Eastside Lansing apart: it has 4.1 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 29.7 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places with both tend to report more theft and car theft than places with only one of them, and they run high here.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.4.1 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 97% 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.29.7 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 95% 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.C+ (43 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 58% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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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
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 Eastside Lansing
Property crime costs Eastside Lansing about $5.2 million a year, or $357 per resident and about $728 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. Eastside Lansing 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
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.
