Five Points is a neighborhood of 10,800 residents in Raleigh, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Five Points in Raleigh safe?
Crime in Five Points is moderate, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of B+. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 64% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Five Points. Violent crime grades A- and property crime B. Raleigh as a whole grades B+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Five Points run from A to B-, so check the map below.
B+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 752 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
36% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Five Points as a whole, and 64% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Five Points scores 752.
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 Five Points, Raleigh, NC at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Five Points in Raleigh, 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 Five Points
Car thefts happen at homes far more often than nationally. In Raleigh as a whole, 58% of reported car thefts happen at homes, against 33% nationally.
How Five Points compares within Raleigh
Every part of Five Points where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Five Points run from A to B-; 20% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Five Points has less crime than 12 of the 18 neighborhoods in Raleigh. It covers much of the Six Forks, Falls of Neuse, and Five Points areas.
Is crime going up in Raleigh?
Reported crime in Raleigh as a whole has risen since 2019: violent crime is up 50% and property crime up 44%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 3.2 to 4.8 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 19 to 28 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
RaleighUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Raleigh. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Raleigh
Violent, US
Property, Raleigh
Property, US
2016
+16%
+4%
+18%
+15%
2017
+19%
+4%
+17%
+12%
2018
-6%
+0%
+2%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+29%
+4%
+11%
-8%
2021
+50%
+6%
+15%
-10%
2022
+58%
+5%
+23%
-6%
2023
+64%
+2%
+34%
-7%
2024
+50%
-4%
+44%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Five Points
CrimeGrade™ estimates Five Points has about 40 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 7% more than the US as a whole and 21% less than Raleigh 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 42% of crime reported in Five Points. 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 Raleigh
The Raleigh Police Department polices Five Points; these figures cover Raleigh as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Raleigh as a whole, 63% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 53% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (63%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Homes (58%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (53%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (45%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (33%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (46%)
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 Five Points compares with nearby neighborhoods
Five Points has less crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Tree cover, nightlife and walkability in Five Points
Two things set Five Points apart: it has tree cover over 35% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally, and 2.2 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally. 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.35% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 95% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.2.2 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 93% 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. 76% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (25 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 65% 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.10% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 91% 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 Five Points
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Five Points about $886 a year per household, 27% 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 $9.8 million a year, or $904 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 Five Points 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
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 Five Points, Raleigh, NC average a SchoolGrade of A+: 72% of students test proficient, against 59% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Five Points on SchoolGrade
