Guide Meridian, Bellingham, WA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Guide Meridian is a neighborhood of 7,420 residents in Bellingham, about 3 miles north of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Guide Meridian?
Property crime is high in Guide Meridian: a C+, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 80% of Americans live. Theft makes up 57% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B-, and vehicle theft grades A+. Bellingham as a whole grades B- for property crime.
C+
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 473 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
20% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Guide Meridian as a whole, and 80% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Guide Meridian scores 473.
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 Guide Meridian, Bellingham, WA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Guide Meridian in Bellingham, 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 Guide Meridian
Thefts run high. Guide Meridian has thefts at about triple the US rate: 42.8 a year per 1,000 residents, against 13.1 nationally.
Property crime rates and types in Guide Meridian
CrimeGrade™ estimates Guide Meridian has about 75 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about triple the rate for the US as a whole and 59% more than Bellingham 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 Guide Meridian, about 57% 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 Bellingham
The Bellingham Police Department polices Guide Meridian; these figures cover Bellingham as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Bellingham as a whole, 35% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often in parking lots and garages: 42% of them, against 23% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (45%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (42%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (37%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (39%)
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 Guide Meridian and nearby neighborhoods
Guide Meridian has less property crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Guide Meridian. 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, Guide Meridian has more property crime than 59% of them.
Transit, parking lots and walkability in Guide Meridian
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Guide Meridian apart: it has 3.3 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 10% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places with a lot of parking-lot space tend to report more theft, and it runs high here.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Guide Meridian: C- (30 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 95% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.3.3 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher 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. 65% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (23 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 68% 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.10% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 91% 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 Guide Meridian
Property crime costs Guide Meridian about $3.5 million a year, or $468 per resident and about $946 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. Guide Meridian 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.
