Highland Square, Akron, OH Property Crime Rates and Maps
Highland Square is a neighborhood of 11,100 residents in Akron, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Highland Square?
Highland Square grades C for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 82% of Americans live. Theft makes up 47% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B+, and vehicle theft grades C. Akron as a whole grades B- for property crime.
C
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 427 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
18% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Highland Square as a whole, and 82% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Highland Square scores 427.
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 Square, Akron, OH at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Highland Square in Akron, 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 Square
Burglaries happen at homes more often than nationally. In Akron as a whole, 73% of reported burglaries happen at homes, against 57% nationally.
How Highland Square compares within Akron
Areas graded C for property crime are home to 52% of residents in Highland Square; 17% live in areas graded A or B and 31% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Highland Square run from B to D-.
17%52%31%
A or B 17%C 52%D or F 31%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Highland Square has less property crime than 5 of the 19 neighborhoods in Akron. It covers much of the North Hill and Highland Square areas and the Northwest Akron, Wallhaven, and Merriman Valley areas.
Is property crime going up in Akron?
Reported property crime in Akron as a whole has fallen 13% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 34 to 29 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
AkronUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Akron. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Akron
Property, US
2016
+29%
+15%
2017
+26%
+12%
2018
+9%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+10%
-8%
2021
+3%
-10%
2022
+3%
-6%
2023
-11%
-7%
2024
-13%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Highland Square
CrimeGrade™ estimates Highland Square has about 39 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 63% more than the US as a whole and close to Akron 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 Square, about 47% 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 Akron
The Akron Police Department polices Highland Square; these figures cover Akron as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
Car thefts happen most often at homes: 38% of them, against 33% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (73%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (38%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (35%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (53%)
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 Square and nearby neighborhoods
Highland Square has more property crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Merriman Valley and Northwest Akron have the least property crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Highland Square. 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 Square has more property crime than 63% of them.
Transit, density and walkability in Highland Square
Highland Square looks like a typical neighborhood on the traits that tend to go with property crime.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Highland Square: C (34 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 95% 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.29% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 72% 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.C+ (40 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 56% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.22 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 66% 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 Square
Property crime costs Highland Square about $3.1 million a year, or $277 per resident and about $602 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.
