Southeast, Raleigh, NC Property Crime Rates and Maps
Southeast is a neighborhood of 35,000 residents in Raleigh, about 5 miles east of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Southeast?
Southeast grades C+ for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 78% of Americans live. Theft makes up 48% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B+, and vehicle theft grades B-. Raleigh as a whole grades B for property crime.
C+
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 522 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
22% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Southeast as a whole, and 78% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Southeast scores 522.
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, Raleigh, NC at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Southeast in Raleigh, 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
Vehicle theft at about double the US rate. Southeast has 5.8 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Southeast compares within Raleigh
Property crime varies widely across Southeast: 41% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 22% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Southeast run from A to F.
41%37%22%
A or B 41%C 37%D or F 22%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Southeast has less property crime than 7 of the 18 neighborhoods in Raleigh. It covers much of the Southeast and South areas.
Is property crime going up in Raleigh?
Reported property crime in Raleigh as a whole has risen 44% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 19 to 28 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
RaleighUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Raleigh. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Raleigh
Property, US
2016
+18%
+15%
2017
+17%
+12%
2018
+2%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+11%
-8%
2021
+15%
-10%
2022
+23%
-6%
2023
+34%
-7%
2024
+44%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Southeast
CrimeGrade™ estimates Southeast has about 33 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 38% more than the US as a whole and close to Raleigh 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, about 48% 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 Raleigh
The Raleigh Police Department polices Southeast; these figures cover Raleigh as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Raleigh as a whole, 63% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often at homes: 58% of them, against 33% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (63%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Homes (58%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (53%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (45%)
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 and nearby neighborhoods
Southeast has less property crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Southeast. 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 has more property crime than 63% of them.
Walkability, parking lots and night lighting in Southeast
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, one sets Southeast apart: it has a Walk Grade of D- (8 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less theft, yet theft runs higher here than that would suggest.
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. 96% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (8 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 95% 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.2.0 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 86% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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.100% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 85% 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.19% 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
Property crime costs Southeast about $9.0 million a year, or $257 per resident and about $855 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.
