Ballantyne West is a neighborhood of 17,100 residents in Charlotte, about 13 miles south of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Ballantyne West in Charlotte safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A means crime in Ballantyne West is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Ballantyne West sits near the middle: 53% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 47% in neighborhoods with less. Violent crime grades A and property crime A-. Charlotte as a whole grades C+. Its neighborhoods are much alike, from A to A-; see the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 850 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
53% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Ballantyne West as a whole, and 47% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Ballantyne West scores 850.
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 Ballantyne West, Charlotte, NC at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Ballantyne West in Charlotte, 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 Ballantyne West
Car thefts happen at homes far more often than nationally. In Charlotte as a whole, 64% of reported car thefts happen at homes, against 33% nationally.
Aggravated assaults and simple assaults both run low. In Ballantyne West, each runs at less than half the US rate: 1.2 aggravated assaults and 4.3 simple assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.6 and 9.7 nationally.
How Ballantyne West compares within Charlotte
Every part of Ballantyne West where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Ballantyne West run from A to A-; 65% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Ballantyne West has less crime than 90 of the 105 neighborhoods in Charlotte. It covers much of the Provincetowne, Ballantyne West, and Ballantyne East areas.
Is crime going up in Charlotte?
Reported violent crime in Charlotte as a whole peaked in 2020 and has fallen 15% since, back near its 2019 level. Property crime is down 6% from 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 7.9 to 7.8 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 42 to 39 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
CharlotteUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Charlotte. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Charlotte
Violent, US
Property, Charlotte
Property, US
2016
-1%
+4%
+4%
+15%
2017
-7%
+4%
-3%
+12%
2018
-6%
+0%
-5%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+16%
+4%
-15%
-8%
2021
+8%
+6%
-18%
-10%
2022
+1%
+5%
-14%
-6%
2023
-2%
+2%
-2%
-7%
2024
-1%
-4%
-6%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Ballantyne West
CrimeGrade™ estimates Ballantyne West has about 25 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 34% less than the US as a whole and 64% less than Charlotte 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 makes up about 49% of crime reported in Ballantyne West. Assault is less common but 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.
Where and when crime happens in Charlotte
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department polices Ballantyne West; these figures cover Charlotte as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Charlotte as a whole, 47% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 54% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (47%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (64%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Homes (54%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (59%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (48%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (57%)
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.
How Ballantyne West compares with nearby neighborhoods
Ballantyne West has less crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Ballantyne West. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Ballantyne West is safer than 87% of them.
Tree cover, jobs and walkability in Ballantyne West
Two things set Ballantyne West apart: it has tree cover over 33% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally, and 73 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places with a lot of tree cover tend to report less robbery.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.33% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 93% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.73 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher 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 and assault. 82% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (18 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 76% 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 and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Ballantyne West: F (2 of 100).2 trips an hourUS: noneLower 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 Ballantyne West
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Ballantyne West about $623 a year per household, 48% 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 $12 million a year, or $726 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 Ballantyne West 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
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department publishes its own crime data
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 Ballantyne West, Charlotte, NC average a SchoolGrade of A+: 76% of students test proficient, against 64% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Ballantyne West on SchoolGrade
