The El Paso metro area, the 67th-largest in the US, is home to 874,200 residents · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in the El Paso area?
The El Paso area earns an A- for property crime, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 55% of Americans live. Theft makes up 50% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A, and vehicle theft grades A-. The city of El Paso itself grades B+ for property crime.
A-
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 797 of 1,000About as much property crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
45% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than the El Paso area as a whole, and 55% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. The El Paso area scores 797.
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 El Paso, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in the El Paso area, 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 the El Paso area
Burglaries run high in Sunset Heights. In this part of southwest El Paso, they run at about triple the rate in the rest of El Paso.
Where property crime is lowest and highest in the El Paso area
Most of the El Paso area grades well for property crime: 93% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Property crime grades across the El Paso area run from A+ to D.
93%
A or B 93%C 7%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Neighborhoods of El Paso
1East Side, southeastCar thefts run about 40% lower here than in the rest of El Paso.A-820
2Las Tierras, eastBurglaries run about 40% lower here than in the rest of El Paso.A-783
3Northwest, northwestBurglaries run about 30% lower here than in the rest of El Paso.B+759
4Northeast, northClose to the rest of El Paso on most crimes.B+744
5Album Park & Cielo Vista South, centralBurglaries run about 40% higher here than in the rest of El Paso.B+728
7Central, westBurglaries run about 80% higher here than in the rest of El Paso.B656
8Sunset Heights, southwestCar thefts run about 90% higher here than in the rest of El Paso.B-571
Neighborhood areas of the city of El Paso, ranked by property crime CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer). Each one combines several of the smaller areas on the map.
Cities and towns in the El Paso metro area with at least 1,000 residents. Ranked by property crime CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer), and the other numbers are residents.
Is property crime going up in the El Paso area?
Reported property crime in the El Paso area has held about steady since 2019, within 6%. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 14 to 13 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
El Paso areaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments across the El Paso area. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, El Paso area
Property, US
2016
+20%
+15%
2017
+18%
+12%
2018
-1%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-19%
-8%
2021
-19%
-10%
2022
-11%
-6%
2023
+1%
-7%
2024
-6%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in the El Paso area
CrimeGrade™ estimates the El Paso area has about 20 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 17% less than the US as a whole and 27% less than Texas.
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 the El Paso area, about 50% 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 the El Paso area
These figures come from the reports of the police departments across the El Paso area, 2022 to 2024.
In the El Paso area, 57% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often at homes: 44% of them, against 33% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (57%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (47%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Property crime in the El Paso area and nearby metro areas
The El Paso area has the least property crime of its 10 nearest metro areas.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from the El Paso area. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with metro areas of similar size and density, the El Paso area has more property crime than 51% of them.
Night lighting, empty homes and density in the El Paso area
The El Paso area looks like a typical metro area on the traits that tend to go with property crime.
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.98% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 93% of Americans in metro areas
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary.6.7% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 63% of Americans in metro areas
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.28% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 61% of Americans in metro areas
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 the El Paso area
Property crime costs the El Paso area about $127 million a year, or $146 per resident and about $428 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 the cost breaks down
Pain and suffering add little to the cost of property crime, so this is close to its full cost.
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Burglary
$11 million
$13
Theft
$44 million
$51
Vehicle theft
$34 million
$39
Arson
$2.0 million
$2
Vandalism
$36 million
$41
Total
$127 million
$146
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. These figures cover the whole El Paso metro area. 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.
