Northshore, Houston, TX Property Crime Rates and Maps
Northshore is a neighborhood of 22,400 residents in Houston, about 9 miles east of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Northshore?
Property crime is high in Northshore: a D-, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 90% of Americans live. Theft makes up 51% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades F, and vehicle theft grades F. Houston as a whole grades C+ for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 105 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
10% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Northshore as a whole, and 90% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Northshore scores 105.
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 Northshore, Houston, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Northshore in Houston, 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 Northshore
Burglary stands out among neighborhoods graded D for property crime. For the typical resident of a US neighborhood graded D for property crime, the figure is 3.9 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents; Northshore has 9.4.
Vehicle theft at more than triple the US rate. Northshore has 14.5 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Northshore compares within Houston
High property crime is widespread across Northshore: 73% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and 8% in areas graded A or B. Property crime grades across Northshore run from A- to F.
19%73%
A or B 8%C 19%D or F 73%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Northshore has less property crime than 7 of the 63 neighborhoods in Houston. It covers much of the East End, Northshore, and Greater Fifth Ward areas.
Is property crime going up in Houston?
Reported property crime in Houston as a whole has held about steady since 2019, within 5%. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 44 to 42 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
HoustonUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Houston. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Houston
Property, US
2016
-1%
+15%
2017
-5%
+12%
2018
-8%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-3%
-8%
2021
-4%
-10%
2022
+3%
-6%
2023
+1%
-7%
2024
-6%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Northshore
CrimeGrade™ estimates Northshore has about 79 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about triple the rate for the US as a whole and 75% more than Houston 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 Northshore, about 51% of the total, followed by vehicle theft and vandalism.
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 Houston
The Houston Police Department polices Northshore; these figures cover Houston as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Houston as a whole, 53% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often in parking lots and garages: 48% of them, against 23% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (53%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (48%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (55%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (43%)
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 Northshore and nearby neighborhoods
Northshore has more property crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Houston Farms and Downtown Pasadena have the least property crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Northshore. 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, Northshore has more property crime than 90% of them.
Empty homes, parking lots and walkability in Northshore
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Northshore apart: it has 15.2% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 2.8 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. It also combines many stores and restaurants with a lot of parking-lot space: places with both tend to report more theft and car theft than places with only one of them, and they run high here.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.15.2% of homesUS: 7.1%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.2.8 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 93% 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- (27 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 62% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.16.5 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 83% 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 Northshore
Property crime costs Northshore about $14 million a year, or $626 per resident and about $1,990 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
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.
