Pine Hills, Albany, NY Property Crime Rates and Maps
Pine Hills is a neighborhood of 14,300 residents in Albany, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Pine Hills?
Property crime is high in Pine Hills: a D+, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 86% of Americans live. Theft makes up 46% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B+, and vehicle theft grades D. Albany as a whole grades B for property crime.
D+
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 299 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
14% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Pine Hills as a whole, and 86% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Pine Hills scores 299.
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 Pine Hills, Albany, NY at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Pine Hills in Albany, 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 Pine Hills
Thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Albany as a whole, 54% of reported thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks, against 18% nationally.
How Pine Hills compares within Albany
High property crime is widespread across Pine Hills: 57% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and the rest in areas graded C. Property crime grades across Pine Hills run from C+ to F.
43%57%
C 43%D or F 57%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Pine Hills has less property crime than 3 of the 13 neighborhoods in Albany. It covers much of the Pine Hills and West End areas.
Is property crime going up in Albany?
Reported property crime in Albany as a whole peaked in 2022 and has fallen 24% since, back near its 2019 level. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 30 to 29 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 18%.
Property crime, change since 2019
AlbanyUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Albany. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Albany
Property, US
2016
+16%
+15%
2017
+14%
+12%
2018
+6%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-12%
-8%
2021
-6%
-10%
2022
+24%
-6%
2023
+15%
-7%
2024
-5%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Pine Hills
CrimeGrade™ estimates Pine Hills has about 31 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 29% more than the US as a whole and 33% less than Albany 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 Pine Hills, 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 Albany
The Albany Police Department polices Pine Hills; these figures cover Albany as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Albany as a whole, 72% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 54% of them, against 27% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (72%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (54%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (54%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (49%)
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 Pine Hills and nearby neighborhoods
Pine Hills has more property crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Buckingham Lake-Crestwood and Helderberg have the least property crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Pine Hills. 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, Pine Hills is safer than 54% of them.
Empty homes, walkability and parking lots in Pine Hills
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Pine Hills apart: it has 11.4% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and a Walk Grade of A- (73 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson, and burglary and vandalism run high here.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.11.4% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 85% 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. 64% of residents here live in walkable areas.A- (73 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 79% 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.0.3 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 76% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.18 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 72% 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 Pine Hills
Property crime costs Pine Hills about $3.0 million a year, or $214 per resident and about $607 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. Pine Hills 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.
