Middle Village, Queens, NY Property Crime Rates and Maps
Middle Village is a neighborhood of 39,800 residents in Queens, about 2 miles west of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Middle Village?
Property crime is high in Middle Village: a D-, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 89% of Americans live. Theft makes up 66% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A, and vehicle theft grades F. Queens as a whole grades D+ for property crime.
D-
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 141 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
11% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Middle Village as a whole, and 89% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Middle Village scores 141.
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 Middle Village, Queens, NY at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Middle Village in Queens, 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 Middle Village
Burglary is a strength. Middle Village grades D- for property crime, but burglary grades A, better than in the neighborhoods where 61% of Americans live.
Thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Queens as a whole, 79% of reported thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks, against 18% nationally.
How Middle Village compares within Queens
High property crime is widespread across Middle Village: 92% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and the rest in areas graded C. Property crime grades across Middle Village run from C to F.
92%
C 8%D or F 92%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Middle Village has less property crime than 16 of the 47 neighborhoods in Queens. It covers much of the Ridgewood, Elmhurst, and Forest Hills areas.
Is property crime going up in Queens?
Reported property crime in Queens as a whole has risen 58% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 15 to 23 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
QueensUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Queens. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Queens
Property, US
2016
+1%
+15%
2017
+1%
+12%
2018
+4%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+1%
-8%
2021
+8%
-10%
2022
+44%
-6%
2023
+61%
-7%
2024
+58%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Middle Village
CrimeGrade™ estimates Middle Village has about 15 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 39% less than the US as a whole and 38% less than Queens 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 Middle Village, about 66% 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 Queens
The New York City Police Department polices Middle Village; these figures cover New York as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In New York as a whole, 50% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 79% of them, against 27% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (50%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (79%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (79%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (40%)
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 Middle Village and nearby neighborhoods
Middle Village has less property crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Middle Village. 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, Middle Village has more property crime than 54% of them.
Density, parking lots and walkability in Middle Village
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Middle Village apart: it has 100% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and 0.1 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places where many residents live in dense blocks tend to report more car theft, and it runs high here.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.100% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 94% 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.0.1 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 94% 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. 78% of residents here live in walkable areas.A- (78 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 82% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.11 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 87% 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 Middle Village
Property crime costs Middle Village about $4.0 million a year, or $99 per resident and about $268 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. Middle Village 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.
