Midway, Escondido, CA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Midway is a neighborhood of 22,800 residents in Escondido, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Midway?
Property crime is high in Midway: a B-, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 76% of Americans live. Theft makes up 59% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B+, and vehicle theft grades C. Escondido as a whole grades B+ for property crime.
B-
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 570 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
24% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Midway as a whole, and 76% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Midway scores 570.
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 Midway, Escondido, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Midway in Escondido, 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 Midway
Burglaries happen at stores and businesses far more often than nationally. In Escondido as a whole, 57% of reported burglaries happen at stores and businesses, against 28% nationally.
How Midway compares within Escondido
In Midway, 52% of residents live in areas graded A or B for property crime, 31% in areas graded C and 17% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Midway run from A- to D-.
52%31%17%
A or B 52%C 31%D or F 17%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Midway has less property crime than 1 of the 6 neighborhoods in Escondido. It covers much of the Midway area.
Is property crime going up in Escondido?
Reported property crime in Escondido as a whole peaked in 2022 and has fallen 20% since, back near its 2019 level. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 16 to 15 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
EscondidoUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Escondido. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Escondido
Property, US
2016
+38%
+15%
2017
+10%
+12%
2018
+15%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+13%
-8%
2021
+16%
-10%
2022
+16%
-6%
2023
+2%
-7%
2024
-7%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Midway
CrimeGrade™ estimates Midway has about 19 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 20% less than the US as a whole and close to Escondido 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 Midway, about 59% of the total, followed by vandalism and burglary.
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 Escondido
The Escondido Police Department polices Midway; these figures cover Escondido as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
Car thefts happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 39% of them, against 27% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (57%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (39%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (36%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (25%)
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 Midway and nearby neighborhoods
Midway has more property crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Black Mountain Ranch and University Commons have the least property crime nearby.
Empty homes, parking lots and walkability in Midway
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Midway apart: it has 3.5% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 0.2 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places like that tend to report less burglary, vandalism and arson, yet burglary and vandalism run higher here than that would suggest.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.3.5% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 82% 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.0.2 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 78% 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. 60% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (29 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 57% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.17 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 76% 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 Midway
Property crime costs Midway about $3.0 million a year, or $134 per resident and about $409 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. Midway 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
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.
