Westside Community Betterment, Springfield, MO Property Crime Rates and Maps
Westside Community Betterment is a neighborhood of 10,400 residents in Springfield, about 2 miles southwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Westside Community Betterment?
Property crime is high in Westside Community Betterment: a B-, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 75% of Americans live. Theft makes up 57% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades D, and vehicle theft grades B+. Springfield as a whole grades B+ for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 572 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
25% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Westside Community Betterment as a whole, and 75% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Westside Community Betterment scores 572.
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.
Property crime map of Westside Community Betterment
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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 Westside Community Betterment, Springfield, MO at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Westside Community Betterment in Springfield, 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 Westside Community Betterment
Burglary is the exception. Westside Community Betterment grades B- for property crime, but burglary grades D, worse than in the neighborhoods where 97% of Americans live.
Car thefts happen at homes far more often than nationally. In Springfield as a whole, 62% of reported car thefts happen at homes, against 33% nationally.
How Westside Community Betterment compares within Springfield
Areas graded C for property crime are home to 52% of residents in Westside Community Betterment; 48% live in areas graded A or B and 0% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Westside Community Betterment run from B+ to C-.
48%52%
A or B 48%C 52%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Westside Community Betterment has less property crime than 12 of the 23 neighborhoods in Springfield. It covers much of the Westside Community Betterment and Young-Lilly areas.
Is property crime going up in Springfield?
Reported property crime in Springfield as a whole has fallen 47% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 79 to 42 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
SpringfieldUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Springfield. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Springfield
Property, US
2016
+9%
+15%
2017
+14%
+12%
2018
-10%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-6%
-8%
2021
-17%
-10%
2022
-37%
-6%
2023
-47%
-7%
2024
-47%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Westside Community Betterment
CrimeGrade™ estimates Westside Community Betterment has about 43 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 83% more than the US as a whole and 19% more than Springfield 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 Westside Community Betterment, about 57% of the total, followed by burglary and vandalism.
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 Springfield
The Springfield Police Department polices Westside Community Betterment; these figures cover Springfield as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Springfield as a whole, 61% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (61%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (62%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (56%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
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 Westside Community Betterment and nearby neighborhoods
Westside Community Betterment has less property crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Westside Community Betterment. 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, Westside Community Betterment is safer than 51% of them.
Transit, parking lots and walkability in Westside Community Betterment
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Westside Community Betterment apart: it has 2.8 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 12% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places with a lot of parking-lot space tend to report more theft, and it runs high here.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Westside Community Betterment: F (0 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower 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.2.8 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 93% 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. 68% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (23 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 68% 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.12% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 88% 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 Westside Community Betterment
Property crime costs Westside Community Betterment about $3.3 million a year, or $315 per resident and about $769 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. Westside Community Betterment 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
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.
