Willowbrook, Houston, TX Property Crime Rates and Maps
Willowbrook is a neighborhood of 12,900 residents in Houston, about 17 miles northwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Willowbrook?
Willowbrook grades D for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 88% of Americans live. Theft makes up 63% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades C, and vehicle theft grades D-. Houston as a whole grades C+ for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 228 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
12% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Willowbrook 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-. Willowbrook scores 228.
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 Willowbrook, Houston, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Willowbrook in Houston, 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 Willowbrook
Car thefts and thefts both run high. In Willowbrook, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 16.1 car thefts and 69.1 thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 and 13.1 nationally.
Thefts from cars happen in parking lots and garages far more often than nationally. In Houston as a whole, 55% of reported thefts from cars happen in parking lots and garages, against 31% nationally.
How Willowbrook compares within Houston
In Willowbrook, 17% of residents live in areas graded A or B for property crime, 41% in areas graded C and 42% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Willowbrook run from B- to F.
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A or B 17%C 41%D or F 42%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Willowbrook has less property crime than 15 of the 63 neighborhoods in Houston. It covers much of the Near Northwest and Greater Inwood areas.
Is property crime going up in Houston?
Reported property crime in Houston as a whole has held about steady since 2019, within 5%. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 44 to 42 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
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Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Houston. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Houston
Property, US
2016
-1%
+15%
2017
-5%
+12%
2018
-8%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-3%
-8%
2021
-4%
-10%
2022
+3%
-6%
2023
+1%
-7%
2024
-6%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Willowbrook
CrimeGrade™ estimates Willowbrook has about 110 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than triple the rate for the US as a whole and more than double the rate for Houston 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 Willowbrook, about 63% 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 Houston
The Houston Police Department polices Willowbrook; these figures cover Houston as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Houston as a whole, 53% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often in parking lots and garages: 48% of them, against 23% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (53%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (48%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (55%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (43%)
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 Willowbrook and nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Willowbrook, 9 have less property crime. Rock Creek and Longwood have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Willowbrook. 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, Willowbrook has more property crime than 80% of them.
Shops, parking lots and walkability in Willowbrook
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Willowbrook apart: it has 42.3 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 4.2 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places with both tend to report more theft and car theft than places with only one of them, and they run high here.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.42.3 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 98% 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.4.2 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 97% 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. 67% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (24 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 67% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.100 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher 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 Willowbrook
Property crime costs Willowbrook about $10 million a year, or $794 per resident and about $2,361 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. Willowbrook 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.
