Morningside Heights, Manhattan, NY Property Crime Rates and Maps
Morningside Heights is a neighborhood of 40,700 residents in Manhattan, about 7 miles north of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Morningside Heights?
Morningside Heights grades D+ for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 87% of Americans live. Theft makes up 74% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A-, and vehicle theft grades F. Manhattan as a whole grades D for property crime.
D+
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 264 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
13% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Morningside Heights as a whole, and 87% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Morningside Heights scores 264.
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 Morningside Heights, Manhattan, NY at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Morningside Heights in Manhattan, 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 Morningside Heights
Burglary is a strength. Morningside Heights grades D+ for property crime, but burglary grades A-.
Thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Manhattan as a whole, 79% of reported thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks, against 18% nationally.
How Morningside Heights compares within Manhattan
In Morningside Heights, 18% of residents live in areas graded A or B for property crime, 19% in areas graded C and 63% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Morningside Heights run from A+ to F.
18%19%63%
A or B 18%C 19%D or F 63%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Morningside Heights has less property crime than 22 of the 30 neighborhoods in Manhattan. It covers much of the Morningside Heights area.
Is property crime going up in Manhattan?
Reported property crime in Manhattan 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
ManhattanUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Manhattan. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Manhattan
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 Morningside Heights
CrimeGrade™ estimates Morningside Heights has about 32 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 35% more than the US as a whole and 23% less than Manhattan 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 Morningside Heights, about 74% 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 Manhattan
The New York City Police Department polices Morningside Heights; 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 Morningside Heights and nearby neighborhoods
Morningside Heights has the least property crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Morningside Heights. 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, Morningside Heights is safer than 56% of them.
Walkability, density and transit in Morningside Heights
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Morningside Heights apart: it has a Walk Grade of A+ (97 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 100% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft, and it runs high here.
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. 100% of residents here live in walkable areas.A+ (97 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 99% 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.100% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 99% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Morningside Heights: B (61 of 100).91 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 95% 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.14.6% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 93% 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 Morningside Heights
Property crime costs Morningside Heights about $8.0 million a year, or $197 per resident and about $548 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. Morningside Heights 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.
