Highland Creek, Charlotte, NC Property Crime Rates and Maps
Highland Creek is a neighborhood of 15,000 residents in Charlotte, about 12 miles north of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Highland Creek?
Property crime in Highland Creek runs higher than in most US neighborhoods: a B+, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 66% of Americans live. Theft makes up 53% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A-, and vehicle theft grades B-. Charlotte as a whole grades C+ for property crime.
B+
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 700 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
34% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Highland Creek as a whole, and 66% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Highland Creek scores 700.
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 Highland Creek, Charlotte, NC at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Highland Creek in Charlotte, 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 Highland Creek
Car thefts run above the US rate. Highland Creek has less property crime than the US as a whole, 20% below the US rate, but more car thefts: 4.1 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
Thefts from cars happen at homes more often than nationally. In Charlotte as a whole, 54% of reported thefts from cars happen at homes, against 34% nationally.
How Highland Creek compares within Charlotte
Low property crime is the norm across Highland Creek: 90% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 10% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Highland Creek run from A+ to F.
90%10%
A or B 90%D or F 10%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Highland Creek has less property crime than 80 of the 105 neighborhoods in Charlotte. It covers much of the Prosperity Church Road, Back Creek Church Road, and Highland Creek areas.
Is property crime going up in Charlotte?
Reported property crime in Charlotte as a whole has held about steady since 2019, within 6%. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 42 to 39 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
CharlotteUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Charlotte. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Charlotte
Property, US
2016
+4%
+15%
2017
-3%
+12%
2018
-5%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-15%
-8%
2021
-18%
-10%
2022
-14%
-6%
2023
-2%
-7%
2024
-6%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Highland Creek
CrimeGrade™ estimates Highland Creek has about 19 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 20% less than the US as a whole and 59% less than Charlotte 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 Highland Creek, about 53% of the total, followed by vehicle theft and vandalism.
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 Charlotte
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department polices Highland Creek; these figures cover Charlotte as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Charlotte as a whole, 47% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often at homes: 64% of them, against 33% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (47%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (64%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Homes (54%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (59%)
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 Highland Creek and nearby neighborhoods
Highland Creek has less property crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Skybrook and Davis Lake-Eastfield have less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Highland Creek. 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, Highland Creek has more property crime than 56% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Highland Creek apart: it has a Walk Grade of D- (9 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 2.7 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places like that tend to report less theft, yet theft runs higher here than that would suggest.
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. 94% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (9 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 94% 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.2.7 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 92% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.8% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 92% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.3.1% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 86% 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 Highland Creek
Property crime costs Highland Creek about $2.3 million a year, or $154 per resident and about $394 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
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department publishes its own crime data
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.
