Garden-Villa Montery is a neighborhood of 3,560 residents in San Jose, about 4 miles southeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Garden-Villa Montery in San Jose safe?
Garden-Villa Montery is among the higher-crime places in the US: an overall CrimeGrade™ of D-, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 92% of Americans live. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, B against F. San Jose as a whole grades B-.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 106 of 1,000Less safe than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
8% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Garden-Villa Montery as a whole, and 92% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Garden-Villa Montery scores 106.
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 Garden-Villa Montery, San Jose, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Garden-Villa Montery in San Jose, 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 Garden-Villa Montery
Car thefts run high. Garden-Villa Montery has car thefts at about triple the US rate: 7.6 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
Crime rates and types in Garden-Villa Montery
CrimeGrade™ estimates Garden-Villa Montery has about 32 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 15% less than the US as a whole and 33% less than San Jose 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 Garden-Villa Montery, about 29% of everything reported, but vehicle theft 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 San Jose
The San Jose Police Department polices Garden-Villa Montery; these figures cover San Jose as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In San Jose as a whole, 40% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 33% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (44%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (55%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (33%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Vandalism
Homes (31%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (43%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (39%)
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 Garden-Villa Montery compares with nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Garden-Villa Montery, 8 have less crime. Evergreen and Santa Teresa have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Garden-Villa Montery. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Garden-Villa Montery has more crime than 73% of them.
Density, empty homes and walkability in Garden-Villa Montery
Two things set Garden-Villa Montery apart: it has 100% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and 3.1% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally. Places where many residents live in dense blocks tend to report more robbery and car theft, and car theft runs high here.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.100% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 99% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.3.1% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 87% 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 (37 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 53% 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.4.2 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 84% 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 Garden-Villa Montery
Crime costs Garden-Villa Montery about $1,621 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 35% 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 $3.9 million a year, or $1,102 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 Garden-Villa Montery 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. Garden-Villa Montery 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
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 Garden-Villa Montery, San Jose, CA average a SchoolGrade of D-: 23% of students test proficient, against 30% projected for schools like them. Overall, they underperform expectations. See schools in Garden-Villa Montery on SchoolGrade
