Metro Center, Springfield, MA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Metro Center is a neighborhood of 8,940 residents in Springfield, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Metro Center?
Property crime is high in Metro Center: a D, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 88% of Americans live. Theft makes up 45% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B, and vehicle theft grades F. Springfield as a whole grades C for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 222 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
12% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Metro Center as a whole, and 88% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Metro Center scores 222.
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 Metro Center, Springfield, MA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Metro Center in Springfield, 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 Metro Center
Car thefts and acts of vandalism both run high. In Metro Center, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 12.9 car thefts and 26.8 acts of vandalism a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 and 5.5 nationally.
Property crime rates and types in Metro Center
CrimeGrade™ estimates Metro Center has about 82 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about triple the rate for the US as a whole and about double the rate for Springfield 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 Metro Center, about 45% 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 Springfield
The Springfield Police Department polices Metro Center; these figures cover Springfield as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Springfield as a whole, 69% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 38% of them, against 27% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (69%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (38%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (41%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (47%)
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 Metro Center and nearby neighborhoods
Metro Center has less property crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Metro Center. 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, Metro Center has more property crime than 55% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Metro Center apart: it has 351 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 21.8 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. It also combines many jobs with busy transit: places with both tend to report more theft than places with only one of them; here theft sits near the national middle.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.351 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 98% 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.21.8 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 90% 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. 51% of residents here live in walkable areas.B+ (67 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 76% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Metro Center: B- (51 of 100).45 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 85% 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 Metro Center
Property crime costs Metro Center about $5.7 million a year, or $635 per resident and about $1,213 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. Metro Center 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.
