Northwest, Anaheim, CA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Northwest is a neighborhood of 60,600 residents in Anaheim, about 2 miles west of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Northwest?
Property crime is high in Northwest: a C, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 83% of Americans live. Theft makes up 53% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades C, and vehicle theft grades D-. Anaheim as a whole grades B- for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 398 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
17% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Northwest as a whole, and 83% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Northwest scores 398.
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, Anaheim, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Northwest in Anaheim, 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
Burglaries happen at stores and businesses far more often than nationally. In Anaheim as a whole, 53% of reported burglaries happen at stores and businesses, against 28% nationally.
How Northwest compares within Anaheim
High property crime is widespread across Northwest: 55% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and 6% in areas graded A or B. Property crime grades across Northwest run from B to F.
39%55%
A or B 6%C 39%D or F 55%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Northwest has less property crime than 2 of the 7 neighborhoods in Anaheim. It covers much of the Northwest area.
Is property crime going up in Anaheim?
Reported property crime in Anaheim as a whole has fallen 10% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 23 to 21 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 13%.
Property crime, change since 2019
AnaheimUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Anaheim. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Anaheim
Property, US
2016
+17%
+15%
2017
+13%
+12%
2018
+6%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+10%
-8%
2021
+18%
-10%
2022
+19%
-6%
2023
+3%
-7%
2024
-10%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Northwest
CrimeGrade™ estimates Northwest has about 31 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 32% more than the US as a whole and 21% more than Anaheim 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, about 53% 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 Anaheim
The Anaheim Police Department polices Northwest; these figures cover Anaheim as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
Car thefts happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 48% of them, against 27% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (53%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (48%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (26%)
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 and nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Northwest, 8 have less property crime. Southeast and Riverview-Santa Ana have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Northwest. 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 is safer than 73% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Northwest apart: it has 3.1% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 66 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places with few empty homes tend to report less burglary, vandalism and arson, yet burglary, vandalism and arson 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.3.1% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 87% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.66 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 79% 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. 66% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (28 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 60% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.83% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 69% 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
Property crime costs Northwest about $15 million a year, or $240 per resident and about $839 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.
