Washington Park is a village of 2,060 in St. Clair County, about 6 miles east of downtown St. Louis · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Washington Park?
Property crime is high in Washington Park: a D, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 88% of Americans live. Theft makes up 30% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades D-, and vehicle theft grades C+.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 200 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
12% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Washington Park as a whole, and 88% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Washington Park scores 200.
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 Washington Park, IL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Washington Park, 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 Washington Park
Burglary stands out among cities graded D for property crime. For the typical resident of a US city graded D for property crime, the figure is 2.2 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents; Washington Park has 13.7.
Car thefts and acts of vandalism both run high. In Washington Park, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 24.0 car thefts and 27.9 acts of vandalism a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 and 5.5 nationally.
Property crime rates and types in Washington Park
CrimeGrade™ estimates Washington Park has about 103 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than triple the rate for the US as a whole and more than triple the rate for Illinois.
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 Washington Park, about 30% 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.
The Washington Park Police Department sent the FBI no usable 2024 counts of burglary, theft, vehicle theft and arson, so CrimeGrade™ built the figures from the department's own reports for recent years, brought up to 2024. The department reports to the FBI in a format that leaves out vandalism, so CrimeGrade™ makes its own vandalism estimate.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Property crime in Washington Park and nearby cities
Washington Park has the most property crime of its 6 nearest cities.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Washington Park. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with cities of similar size and density, Washington Park has more property crime than 99% of them.
Property crime costs Washington Park about $2.1 million a year, or $994 per resident and about $2,583 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 the cost breaks down
Pain and suffering add little to the cost of property crime, so this is close to its full cost.
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Burglary
$250,000
$123
Theft
$330,000
$158
Vehicle theft
$760,000
$369
Arson
$300,000
$146
Vandalism
$410,000
$198
Total
$2.1 million
$994
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.
