Glendale, Madison, WI Property Crime Rates and Maps
Glendale is a neighborhood of 3,100 residents in Madison, about 3 miles east of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Glendale?
Property crime in Glendale sits near the national middle: an A-, safer than the neighborhoods where 53% of Americans live. Theft makes up 73% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A, and vehicle theft grades A+. Madison as a whole grades A- for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 839 of 1,000About as much property crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
53% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Glendale as a whole, and 47% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Glendale scores 839.
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 Glendale, Madison, WI at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Glendale in Madison, 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 Glendale
Crime per resident runs higher than the grade. Glendale draws many workers, shoppers and visitors: it has 114 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Crimes against them are counted against the few who live here, so crime per resident looks higher than the CrimeGrade™ suggests. The CrimeGrade™ counts everyone who spends time here.
Property crime rates and types in Glendale
CrimeGrade™ estimates Glendale has about 34 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 45% more than the US as a whole and 33% more than Madison 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 Glendale, about 73% 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 Madison
The Madison Police Department polices Glendale; these figures cover Madison as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Madison as a whole, 73% 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 (73%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (40%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (38%)
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; they are over one in five for burglary, car theft, theft from cars, vandalism, robbery, aggravated assault.
Property crime in Glendale and nearby neighborhoods
Glendale has the least property crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Glendale. 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, Glendale is safer than 86% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Glendale apart: it has 5.9 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 26.8 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; here theft sits near the national middle.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.5.9 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher 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.26.8 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 93% 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. 61% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (32 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 54% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.114 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 90% 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 Glendale
Property crime costs Glendale about $660,000 a year, or $213 per resident and about $473 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.
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.
