Great Bridge, Chesapeake, VA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Great Bridge is a neighborhood of 26,900 residents in Chesapeake, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Great Bridge?
Great Bridge earns an A for property crime, safer than the neighborhoods where 63% of Americans live. Theft makes up 65% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A, and vehicle theft grades A+. Chesapeake as a whole grades A- for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 882 of 1,000Less property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
63% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Great Bridge as a whole, and 37% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Great Bridge scores 882.
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 Great Bridge, Chesapeake, VA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Great Bridge in Chesapeake, 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 Great Bridge
Burglaries are uncommon. Great Bridge has burglaries at less than half the US rate: 0.86 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.4 nationally.
Thefts from cars happen at homes more often than nationally. In Chesapeake as a whole, 56% of reported thefts from cars happen at homes, against 34% nationally.
How Great Bridge compares within Chesapeake
Every part of Great Bridge where people live grades A or B for property crime on the national scale. Property crime grades across Great Bridge run from A to A-.
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Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Great Bridge has less property crime than 7 of the 14 neighborhoods in Chesapeake. It covers much of the Great Bridge area.
Is property crime going up in Chesapeake?
Reported property crime in Chesapeake as a whole has fallen 23% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 23 to 18 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
ChesapeakeUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Chesapeake. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Chesapeake
Property, US
2016
+12%
+15%
2017
+1%
+12%
2018
-5%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-21%
-8%
2021
-24%
-10%
2022
-11%
-6%
2023
-19%
-7%
2024
-22%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Great Bridge
CrimeGrade™ estimates Great Bridge has about 11 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 52% less than the US as a whole and 52% less than Chesapeake 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 Great Bridge, about 65% of the total, followed by vandalism 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.
Where and when property crime happens in Chesapeake
The Chesapeake Police Department polices Great Bridge; these figures cover Chesapeake as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Chesapeake as a whole, 61% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often at homes: 49% of them, against 33% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (61%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (49%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (56%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (52%)
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 Great Bridge and nearby neighborhoods
Great Bridge has less property crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Great Bridge. 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, Great Bridge is safer than 82% of them.
Density, empty homes and walkability in Great Bridge
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Great Bridge apart: it has 5% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and 1.9% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally. Places like that tend to report less car theft, and it runs low here.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.5% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 95% 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.1.9% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower 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. 90% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (10 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 92% 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 Great Bridge
Property crime costs Great Bridge about $1.9 million a year, or $72 per resident and about $207 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.
