Elmhurst is a neighborhood of 12,700 residents in Providence, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Elmhurst in Providence safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B+, Elmhurst has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 63% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Violent crime grades A- and property crime B. Providence as a whole grades B. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Elmhurst run from A to C+, so check the map below.
B+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 760 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
37% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Elmhurst as a whole, and 63% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Elmhurst scores 760.
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 Elmhurst, Providence, RI at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Elmhurst in Providence, 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 Elmhurst
Burglaries are less common than in most B-graded neighborhoods. Elmhurst has 0.95 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a B-graded US neighborhood, the figure is 2.5.
How Elmhurst compares within Providence
Low crime is the norm across Elmhurst: 93% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across Elmhurst run from A to C+; 29% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
93%
A or B 93%C 7%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Elmhurst has less crime than 16 of the 28 neighborhoods in Providence. It covers much of the Elmhurst, Twin Rivers Beach, and Woodville areas.
Is crime going up in Providence?
Reported violent crime in Providence as a whole has fallen 45% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.0 to 2.8 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 10%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
ProvidenceUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Providence. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Providence
Violent, US
2016
+15%
+4%
2017
+8%
+4%
2018
-8%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-9%
+4%
2021
-22%
+6%
2022
-32%
+5%
2023
-38%
+2%
2024
-45%
-4%
Crime rates and types in Elmhurst
CrimeGrade™ estimates Elmhurst has about 24 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 35% less than the US as a whole and 30% less than Providence 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 39% of crime reported in Elmhurst. 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 Providence
The Providence Police Department polices Elmhurst; these figures cover Providence as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Providence as a whole, 76% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 30% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (76%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (34%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (30%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (38%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (48%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (36%)
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 Elmhurst compares with nearby neighborhoods
Elmhurst has less crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Marieville and Manton have less.
Empty homes, parking lots and walkability in Elmhurst
Two things set Elmhurst apart: it has 17.1% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 0.2 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson, and vandalism runs high here.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.17.1% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 96% 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.0.2 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 84% 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.C+ (45 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 60% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.19% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 77% 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 Elmhurst
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Elmhurst about $747 a year per household, 38% 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 $10 million a year, or $804 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 Elmhurst 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 Elmhurst, Providence, RI average a SchoolGrade of D-: 21% of students test proficient, against 23% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Elmhurst on SchoolGrade
