Northwest Akron, Akron, OH Property Crime Rates and Maps
Northwest Akron is a neighborhood of 11,200 residents in Akron, about 4 miles northwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Northwest Akron?
Property crime in Northwest Akron sits near the national middle: an A-, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 54% of Americans live. Theft makes up 46% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A, and vehicle theft grades A. Akron as a whole grades B- for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 799 of 1,000About as much property crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
46% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Northwest Akron as a whole, and 54% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Northwest Akron scores 799.
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 Northwest Akron, Akron, OH at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Northwest Akron in Akron, 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 Northwest Akron
Burglaries happen at homes more often than nationally. In Akron as a whole, 73% of reported burglaries happen at homes, against 57% nationally.
How Northwest Akron compares within Akron
Every part of Northwest Akron where people live grades A or B for property crime on the national scale. Property crime grades across Northwest Akron run from A- to B+.
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Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Northwest Akron has less property crime than 17 of the 19 neighborhoods in Akron. It covers much of the Northwest Akron, Wallhaven, and Merriman Valley areas.
Is property crime going up in Akron?
Reported property crime in Akron as a whole has fallen 13% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 34 to 29 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
AkronUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Akron. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Akron
Property, US
2016
+29%
+15%
2017
+26%
+12%
2018
+9%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+10%
-8%
2021
+3%
-10%
2022
+3%
-6%
2023
-11%
-7%
2024
-13%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Northwest Akron
CrimeGrade™ estimates Northwest Akron has about 16 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 33% less than the US as a whole and 62% less than Akron 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 Northwest Akron, about 46% 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 Akron
The Akron Police Department polices Northwest Akron; these figures cover Akron as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
Car thefts happen most often at homes: 38% of them, against 33% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (73%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (38%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (35%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (53%)
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 Northwest Akron and nearby neighborhoods
Northwest Akron has less property crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Merriman Valley has less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Northwest Akron. 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, Northwest Akron is safer than 65% of them.
Density, walkability and transit in Northwest Akron
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Northwest Akron apart: it has 4% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and a Walk Grade of D- (10 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less car theft; here car theft sits near the national middle.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.4% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 96% 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. 92% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (10 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 92% 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 Northwest Akron: D+ (24 of 100).under 1 trip an hourUS: noneLower than for 90% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.99% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 89% 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 Northwest Akron
Property crime costs Northwest Akron about $1.2 million a year, or $110 per resident and about $239 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
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.
