Ahwatukee is a neighborhood of 80,700 residents in Phoenix, about 10 miles south of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Ahwatukee in Phoenix safe?
Yes, crime in Ahwatukee is low, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of A-. Because most US neighborhoods are safe as well, Ahwatukee sits near the middle: safer than the neighborhoods where 48% of Americans live. Violent and property crime both grade A- here. Phoenix as a whole grades C+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Ahwatukee run from A+ to D, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 827 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
48% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Ahwatukee as a whole, and 52% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Ahwatukee scores 827.
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 crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime 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 Ahwatukee, Phoenix, AZ at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Ahwatukee in Phoenix, 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 in Ahwatukee
Robbery stands out among A-graded neighborhoods. For the typical resident of an A-graded US neighborhood, the figure is 0.23 robberies a year per 1,000 residents; Ahwatukee has 0.49.
How Ahwatukee compares within Phoenix
Nearly every part of Ahwatukee where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Ahwatukee run from A+ to D; 47% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 99%D or F 1%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Ahwatukee has less crime than 15 of the 19 neighborhoods in Phoenix. It covers much of the Ahwatukee area.
Is crime going up in Phoenix?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Phoenix as a whole is up 13% and property crime is down 31%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 7.0 to 8.0 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 33 to 23 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
PhoenixUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Phoenix. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Phoenix
Violent, US
Property, Phoenix
Property, US
2016
-5%
+4%
+9%
+15%
2017
+9%
+4%
+11%
+12%
2018
+4%
+0%
+5%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+21%
+4%
-5%
-8%
2021
+20%
+6%
-10%
-10%
2022
+17%
+5%
-13%
-6%
2023
+12%
+2%
-25%
-7%
2024
+13%
-4%
-30%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Ahwatukee
CrimeGrade™ estimates Ahwatukee has about 20 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 47% less than the US as a whole and 64% less than Phoenix as a whole.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft is the most common crime in Ahwatukee, about 38% of everything reported, but assault costs more, because each one does more harm.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. 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.
How Ahwatukee compares with nearby neighborhoods
Ahwatukee has the least crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Tree cover, night lighting and walkability in Ahwatukee
Two things set Ahwatukee apart: it has tree cover over 1% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally, and a Walk Grade of D (14 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. Places with little tree cover tend to report more robbery, and it runs high here.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.1% where people liveUS: 21%Lower than for 91% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.100% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 88% 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 and assault. 85% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (14 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 86% 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 robbery and car theft.19% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 81% 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 crime costs Ahwatukee
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Ahwatukee about $605 a year per household, 50% less than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $65 million a year, or $807 per resident.
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Ahwatukee means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
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.
Schools in Ahwatukee, Phoenix, AZ average a SchoolGrade of B+: 42% of students test proficient, against 40% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Ahwatukee on SchoolGrade
