Greater Eastside is a neighborhood of 30,200 residents in St. Paul, about 4 miles northeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Greater Eastside in St. Paul safe?
Crime in Greater Eastside is high by national standards, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of C+. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 83% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Greater Eastside. Violent and property crime both grade C+ here. St. Paul as a whole grades B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Greater Eastside run from B to D+, so check the map below.
C+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 487 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
17% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Greater Eastside as a whole, and 83% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Greater Eastside scores 487.
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 Greater Eastside, St. Paul, MN at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Greater Eastside in St. Paul, 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 Greater Eastside
Car thefts happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In St. Paul as a whole, 51% of reported car thefts happen on streets and sidewalks, against 27% nationally.
How Greater Eastside compares within St. Paul
Areas graded C are home to 62% of residents in Greater Eastside; 36% live in areas graded A or B and 2% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Greater Eastside run from B to D+; every part of Greater Eastside has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
36%62%
A or B 36%C 62%D or F 2%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Greater Eastside has less crime than 6 of the 17 neighborhoods in St. Paul. It covers much of the Greater Eastside and Payne-Phalen areas.
Is crime going up in St. Paul?
Reported violent crime in St. Paul as a whole peaked in 2021 and has fallen 22% since, back near its 2019 level. Property crime is down 23% from 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.7 to 6.1 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 36 to 28 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
St. PaulUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve St. Paul. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, St. Paul
Violent, US
Property, St. Paul
Property, US
2016
+14%
+4%
-11%
+15%
2017
+15%
+4%
-2%
+12%
2018
+11%
+0%
-10%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+32%
+4%
+4%
-8%
2021
+38%
+6%
+12%
-10%
2022
+23%
+5%
+16%
-6%
2023
+8%
+2%
-16%
-7%
2024
+7%
-4%
-23%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Greater Eastside
CrimeGrade™ estimates Greater Eastside has about 41 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 9% more than the US as a whole and 21% less than St. Paul 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 is the most common crime in Greater Eastside, about 31% of everything reported, but assault 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 St. Paul
The St. Paul Police Department polices Greater Eastside; these figures cover St. Paul as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In St. Paul as a whole, 62% 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
Homes (62%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (51%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Theft from cars
Homes (33%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Vandalism
Homes (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (48%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (49%)
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 Greater Eastside compares with nearby neighborhoods
Greater Eastside has less crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Greater Eastside. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Greater Eastside is safer than 53% of them.
Shops, tree cover and walkability in Greater Eastside
Two things set Greater Eastside apart: it has 2.8 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 16 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less theft and car theft, yet theft and car theft run higher here than that would suggest.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.2.8 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 92% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.24% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 85% 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. 52% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C (34 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 51% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.16 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower 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 Greater Eastside
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Greater Eastside about $1,703 a year per household, 41% 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 $58 million a year, or $1,906 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 Greater Eastside 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. Greater Eastside 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 Greater Eastside, St. Paul, MN average a SchoolGrade of F: 21% of students test proficient, against 30% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Greater Eastside on SchoolGrade
