Echo Highlands, Birmingham, AL Property Crime Rates and Maps
Echo Highlands is a neighborhood of 3,030 residents in Birmingham, about 10 miles northeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Echo Highlands?
Echo Highlands grades B for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 72% of Americans live. Theft makes up 37% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B, and vehicle theft grades B. Birmingham as a whole grades C for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 619 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
28% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Echo Highlands as a whole, and 72% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Echo Highlands scores 619.
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 Echo Highlands, Birmingham, AL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Echo Highlands in Birmingham, 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 Echo Highlands
Vehicle theft at about triple the US rate. Echo Highlands has 7.8 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
Property crime rates and types in Echo Highlands
CrimeGrade™ estimates Echo Highlands has about 43 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 80% more than the US as a whole and 32% less than Birmingham 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 Echo Highlands, about 37% 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 Birmingham
The Birmingham Police Department polices Echo Highlands; these figures cover Birmingham as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Birmingham as a whole, 68% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often at homes: 45% of them, against 33% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (68%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (45%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (31%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (51%)
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 Echo Highlands and nearby neighborhoods
Echo Highlands has less property crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Crestline has less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Echo Highlands. 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, Echo Highlands has more property crime than 66% of them.
Density, walkability and empty homes in Echo Highlands
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Echo Highlands apart: it has 2% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and a Walk Grade of F (6 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less car theft, yet car theft runs higher here than that would suggest.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.2% of residentsUS: 24%Lower 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. 100% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.F (6 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 97% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.16.2% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 95% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.97% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 94% 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 Echo Highlands
Property crime costs Echo Highlands about $1.1 million a year, or $352 per resident and about $740 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. Echo Highlands 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.
