Washington Square, Syracuse, NY Property Crime Rates and Maps
Washington Square is a neighborhood of 12,200 residents in Syracuse, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Washington Square?
Washington Square grades F for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 96% of Americans live. Theft makes up 45% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades F, and vehicle theft grades F. Syracuse as a whole grades C+ for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000More property crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
4% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Washington Square as a whole, and 96% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Washington Square 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 Washington Square, Syracuse, NY at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Washington Square in Syracuse, 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 Square
Burglaries run high for a neighborhood with an F for property crime. Washington Square has 12.1 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a US neighborhood graded F for property crime, the figure is 3.4.
Car thefts and acts of vandalism both run high. In Washington Square, each runs at about triple the US rate: 8.0 car thefts and 16.5 acts of vandalism a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 and 5.5 nationally.
How Washington Square compares within Syracuse
Every part of Washington Square grades D or F for property crime on the national scale.
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Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Washington Square has less property crime than 0 of the 23 neighborhoods in Syracuse. It covers much of the Washington Square and Northside areas.
Is property crime going up in Syracuse?
Reported property crime in Syracuse as a whole has risen 34% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 32 to 42 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime rose 12%.
Property crime, change since 2019
SyracuseUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Syracuse. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Syracuse
Property, US
2016
+4%
+15%
2017
+8%
+12%
2018
-1%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-13%
-8%
2021
-24%
-10%
2022
-4%
-6%
2023
+20%
-7%
2024
+34%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Washington Square
CrimeGrade™ estimates Washington Square has about 67 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about triple the rate for the US as a whole and 42% more than Syracuse 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 Washington Square, about 45% 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.
Property crime in Washington Square and nearby neighborhoods
Washington Square has the most property crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Washington Square. 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, Washington Square has more property crime than 87% of them.
Empty homes, parking lots and walkability in Washington Square
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Washington Square apart: it has 13.0% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 0.2 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places with many empty homes 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.13.0% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 90% 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.0.2 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 81% 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.B (57 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 69% 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.84% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 70% 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 Washington Square
Property crime costs Washington Square about $6.2 million a year, or $507 per resident and about $1,235 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.
