East del Paso Heights is a neighborhood of 4,740 residents in Sacramento, about 5 miles northeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is East del Paso Heights in Sacramento safe?
East del Paso Heights is among the higher-crime places in the US: an overall CrimeGrade™ of D, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 91% of Americans live. Property crime grades better than violent crime here, C+ against F. Sacramento as a whole grades B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within East del Paso Heights run from D+ to F, so check the map below.
D
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 158 of 1,000Less safe than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
9% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than East del Paso Heights as a whole, and 91% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. East del Paso Heights scores 158.
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 East del Paso Heights, Sacramento, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in East del Paso Heights in Sacramento, 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 East del Paso Heights
Theft is a strength. East del Paso Heights grades C+ for property crime, but theft grades B+.
Burglaries and aggravated assaults both run high. In East del Paso Heights, each runs at more than double the US rate: 5.9 burglaries and 7.0 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.4 and 2.6 nationally.
Crime rates and types in East del Paso Heights
CrimeGrade™ estimates East del Paso Heights has about 49 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 31% more than the US as a whole and close to Sacramento 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.
Assault is the most common crime in East del Paso Heights, about 39% of everything reported.
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 Sacramento
The Sacramento Police Department polices East del Paso Heights; these figures cover Sacramento as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Sacramento as a whole, 38% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 42% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (52%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (46%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (42%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (34%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (46%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (40%)
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 East del Paso Heights compares with nearby neighborhoods
East del Paso Heights has less crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from East del Paso Heights. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, East del Paso Heights has more crime than 80% of them.
Empty homes, shops and walkability in East del Paso Heights
Two things set East del Paso Heights apart: it has 0.0% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 3.6 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places like that tend to report less burglary, vandalism and arson, yet burglary and vandalism run higher here than that would suggest.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.under 1% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 99% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.3.6 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower 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. 60% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (28 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 58% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.1.4 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 72% 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 East del Paso Heights
Crime costs East del Paso Heights about $3,240 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, more than double 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 $19 million a year, or $3,920 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 East del Paso Heights 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. East del Paso Heights is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower 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.
Schools in East del Paso Heights, Sacramento, CA average a SchoolGrade of F: 18% of students test proficient, against 24% projected for schools like them. Overall, they don't meet expectations. See schools in East del Paso Heights on SchoolGrade
