Central Omaha is a neighborhood of 15,600 residents in Omaha, about 5 miles west of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Central Omaha in Omaha safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in Central Omaha is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Central Omaha sits near the middle: 48% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 52% in neighborhoods with less. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, A against B+. Omaha as a whole grades B+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Central Omaha run from A to C+, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 830 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
48% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Central Omaha as a whole, and 52% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Central Omaha scores 830.
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 Central Omaha, Omaha, NE at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Central Omaha in Omaha, 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 Central Omaha
Theft at about triple the US rate. Central Omaha has 41.8 thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 13.1 nationally.
How Central Omaha compares within Omaha
Most of Central Omaha grades well: 97% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across Central Omaha run from A to C+; 35% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 97%C 3%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Central Omaha has less crime than 16 of the 19 neighborhoods in Omaha. It covers much of the Central Omaha area.
Is crime going up in Omaha?
Reported crime in Omaha as a whole has fallen since 2019: violent crime is down 40% and property crime down 14%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 6.0 to 3.6 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 36 to 31 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 11% and property crime fell 22%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
OmahaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Omaha. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Omaha
Violent, US
Property, Omaha
Property, US
2016
-12%
+4%
-1%
+15%
2017
+1%
+4%
+2%
+12%
2018
-9%
+0%
-5%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+2%
+4%
-14%
-8%
2021
-2%
+6%
-14%
-10%
2022
-7%
+5%
-4%
-6%
2023
-32%
+2%
+12%
-7%
2024
-40%
-4%
-14%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Central Omaha
CrimeGrade™ estimates Central Omaha has about 79 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and 40% more than Omaha 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.
The largest share of crime reported in Central Omaha is theft, about 53% of the total. It also makes up the largest share of what crime costs here.
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 Central Omaha compares with nearby neighborhoods
Central Omaha has the least crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Parking lots, jobs and walkability in Central Omaha
Two things set Central Omaha apart: it has 4.4 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 248 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. It also combines many stores and restaurants with a lot of parking-lot space: places with both tend to report more theft and car theft than places with only one of them, and car theft runs high here.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.4.4 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 98% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.248 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher 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 and assault. 74% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (23 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 67% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.34.5 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 96% 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 Central Omaha
Crime costs Central Omaha about $1,415 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 17% more 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 $21 million a year, or $1,323 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 Central Omaha 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. Central Omaha 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.
Schools in Central Omaha, Omaha, NE average a SchoolGrade of D: 54% of students test proficient, against 44% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Central Omaha on SchoolGrade
