Harambee, Milwaukee, WI Property Crime Rates and Maps
Harambee is a neighborhood of 11,500 residents in Milwaukee, about 2 miles north of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Harambee?
Harambee grades F for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 92% of Americans live. Theft makes up 29% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades C-, and vehicle theft grades F. Milwaukee as a whole grades C for property crime.
F
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000More property crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
8% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Harambee as a whole, and 92% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Harambee scores 0.
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 Harambee, Milwaukee, WI at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Harambee in Milwaukee, 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 Harambee
Car thefts run high. Harambee has car thefts at more than triple the US rate: 11.1 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
Thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Milwaukee as a whole, 55% of reported thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks, against 18% nationally.
How Harambee compares within Milwaukee
Every part of Harambee grades D or F for property crime on the national scale.
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D or F 100%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Harambee has less property crime than 20 of the 72 neighborhoods in Milwaukee. It covers much of the Lower East Side, Riverwest, and Harambee areas.
Is property crime going up in Milwaukee?
Reported property crime in Milwaukee as a whole peaked in 2021 and has fallen 40% since, back near its 2019 level. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 26 to 27 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
MilwaukeeUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Milwaukee. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Milwaukee
Property, US
2016
+58%
+15%
2017
+48%
+12%
2018
+18%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+10%
-8%
2021
+73%
-10%
2022
+27%
-6%
2023
+7%
-7%
2024
+5%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Harambee
CrimeGrade™ estimates Harambee has about 41 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 74% more than the US as a whole and close to Milwaukee 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 Harambee, about 29% 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 Milwaukee
The Milwaukee Police Department polices Harambee; these figures cover Milwaukee as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Milwaukee as a whole, 64% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 62% of them, against 27% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (64%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (62%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (55%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (37%)
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 Harambee and nearby neighborhoods
Harambee has less property crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Harambee. 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, Harambee has more property crime than 69% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Harambee apart: it has 15.2% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 12 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson, and burglary and vandalism run high here.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.15.2% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 94% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.12 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 85% 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. 74% of residents here live in walkable areas.A- (76 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 81% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.5.4 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 75% 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 Harambee
Property crime costs Harambee about $4.4 million a year, or $383 per resident and about $1,095 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. Harambee is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower 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
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.
