Southeast Mesa, Mesa, AZ Property Crime Rates and Maps
Southeast Mesa is a neighborhood of 125,300 residents in Mesa, about 10 miles east of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Southeast Mesa?
Property crime in Southeast Mesa sits near the national middle: an A-, safer than the neighborhoods where 54% of Americans live. Theft makes up 70% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A, and vehicle theft grades A. Mesa as a whole grades A- for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 845 of 1,000About as much property crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
54% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Southeast Mesa as a whole, and 46% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Southeast Mesa scores 845.
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 Southeast Mesa, Mesa, AZ at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Southeast Mesa in Mesa, 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 Southeast Mesa
Car thefts happen in parking lots and garages far more often than nationally. In Mesa as a whole, 45% of reported car thefts happen in parking lots and garages, against 23% nationally.
Vandalism runs low. Southeast Mesa has 1.9 acts of vandalism a year per 1,000 residents, less than half the US rate of 5.5.
How Southeast Mesa compares within Mesa
Low property crime is the norm across Southeast Mesa: 97% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 2% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Southeast Mesa run from A+ to D-.
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A or B 97%C 1%D or F 2%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Southeast Mesa has less property crime than 5 of the 7 neighborhoods in Mesa. It covers much of the Southeast Mesa area.
Is property crime going up in Mesa?
Reported property crime in Mesa as a whole has fallen 22% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 19 to 15 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 11%.
Property crime, change since 2019
MesaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Mesa. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Mesa
Property, US
2016
+22%
+15%
2017
+14%
+12%
2018
+6%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+4%
-8%
2021
+6%
-10%
2022
-4%
-6%
2023
-12%
-7%
2024
-22%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Southeast Mesa
CrimeGrade™ estimates Southeast Mesa has about 16 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 32% less than the US as a whole and close to Mesa 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 Southeast Mesa, about 70% 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 Mesa
The Mesa Police Department polices Southeast Mesa; these figures cover Mesa as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Mesa as a whole, 53% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (53%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (45%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (46%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (39%)
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 Southeast Mesa and nearby neighborhoods
Southeast Mesa has less property crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Power Ranch and Northeast have less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Southeast Mesa. 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, Southeast Mesa is safer than 95% of them.
Walkability, parking lots and transit in Southeast Mesa
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, one sets Southeast Mesa apart: it has a Walk Grade of D- (11 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less theft; here theft sits near the national middle.
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. 94% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (11 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 91% 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.1.7 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 81% 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 Southeast Mesa: D- (8 of 100).2 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 81% 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.20% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 81% 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 Southeast Mesa
Property crime costs Southeast Mesa about $14 million a year, or $109 per resident and about $276 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.
