Powellhurst-Gilbert, Portland, OR Property Crime Rates and Maps
Powellhurst-Gilbert is a neighborhood of 25,800 residents in Portland, about 7 miles east of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Powellhurst-Gilbert?
Property crime is high in Powellhurst-Gilbert: an F, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 93% of Americans live. Theft makes up 58% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades C, and vehicle theft grades F. Portland as a whole grades D+ for property crime.
F
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000More property crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
7% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Powellhurst-Gilbert as a whole, and 93% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Powellhurst-Gilbert scores 0.
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 Powellhurst-Gilbert, Portland, OR at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Powellhurst-Gilbert in Portland, 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 Powellhurst-Gilbert
Vehicle theft at about triple the US rate. Powellhurst-Gilbert has 7.7 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Powellhurst-Gilbert compares within Portland
High property crime is widespread across Powellhurst-Gilbert: 97% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and the rest in areas graded C. Property crime grades across Powellhurst-Gilbert run from C- to F.
97%
C 3%D or F 97%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Powellhurst-Gilbert has less property crime than 14 of the 64 neighborhoods in Portland. It covers much of the Powellhurst-Gilbert, Lents, and Pleasant Valley areas.
Is property crime going up in Portland?
Reported property crime in Portland as a whole peaked in 2022 and has fallen 15% since, back near its 2019 level. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 53 to 54 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
PortlandUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Portland. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Portland
Property, US
2016
-2%
+15%
2017
+8%
+12%
2018
+5%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-4%
-8%
2021
+12%
-10%
2022
+20%
-6%
2023
+10%
-7%
2024
+2%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Powellhurst-Gilbert
CrimeGrade™ estimates Powellhurst-Gilbert has about 55 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and close to Portland 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 Powellhurst-Gilbert, about 58% 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 Portland
The Portland Police Department polices Powellhurst-Gilbert; these figures cover Portland as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Portland as a whole, 34% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 62% of them, against 27% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (46%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (62%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (35%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (30%)
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 Powellhurst-Gilbert and nearby neighborhoods
Powellhurst-Gilbert has more property crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. West Mt. Scott and Pleasant Valley have the least property crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Powellhurst-Gilbert. 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, Powellhurst-Gilbert has more property crime than 98% of them.
Empty homes, jobs and walkability in Powellhurst-Gilbert
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Powellhurst-Gilbert apart: it has 4.3% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 20 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places like that 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.4.3% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 74% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.20 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 70% 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. 70% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (24 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 65% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Powellhurst-Gilbert: C (32 of 100).17 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 68% 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 Powellhurst-Gilbert
Property crime costs Powellhurst-Gilbert about $11 million a year, or $409 per resident and about $1,168 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.
