West 7th, St. Paul, MN Property Crime Rates and Maps
West 7th is a neighborhood of 12,900 residents in St. Paul, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in West 7th?
Property crime is high in West 7th: a B, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 72% of Americans live. Theft makes up 54% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B, and vehicle theft grades B-. St. Paul as a whole grades B- for property crime.
B
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 628 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
28% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than West 7th as a whole, and 72% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. West 7th scores 628.
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 West 7th, St. Paul, MN at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in West 7th in St. Paul, 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 West 7th
Burglaries and car thefts both run high. In West 7th, each runs at about double the US rate: 5.1 burglaries and 5.8 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.4 and 2.7 nationally.
How West 7th compares within St. Paul
Low property crime is the norm across West 7th: 82% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 5% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across West 7th run from B+ to D+.
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A or B 82%C 13%D or F 5%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
West 7th has less property crime than 12 of the 17 neighborhoods in St. Paul. It covers much of the West 7th, West Side, and Summit Hill areas.
Is property crime going up in St. Paul?
Reported property crime in St. Paul as a whole has fallen 23% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 36 to 28 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
St. PaulUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve St. Paul. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, St. Paul
Property, US
2016
-11%
+15%
2017
-2%
+12%
2018
-10%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+4%
-8%
2021
+12%
-10%
2022
+16%
-6%
2023
-16%
-7%
2024
-23%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in West 7th
CrimeGrade™ estimates West 7th has about 43 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 79% more than the US as a whole and 19% more than St. Paul 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 West 7th, about 54% 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 St. Paul
The St. Paul Police Department polices West 7th; these figures cover St. Paul as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In St. Paul as a whole, 62% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 51% of them, against 27% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (62%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (51%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Theft from cars
Homes (33%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Vandalism
Homes (44%)
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 West 7th and nearby neighborhoods
West 7th has less property crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Highland and Macalester-Groveland have less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from West 7th. 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, West 7th is safer than 56% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set West 7th apart: it has 154 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 25 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby. Places with both tend to report more theft than places with only one of them; here theft sits near the national middle.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.154 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 94% 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
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- (53 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 66% 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 West 7th: C (34 of 100).25 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 75% 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 West 7th
Property crime costs West 7th about $4.2 million a year, or $323 per resident and about $661 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. West 7th is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
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.
