Iron Triangle is a neighborhood of 13,500 residents in Richmond, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Iron Triangle in Richmond safe?
Crime in Iron Triangle is high, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of F. Most US neighborhoods have far less: 95% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Iron Triangle. Violent and property crime both grade F here. Richmond as a whole grades C-. Its neighborhoods are much alike, from D to F; see the map below.
F
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000Less safe than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
5% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Iron Triangle as a whole, and 95% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Iron Triangle scores 0.
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 Iron Triangle, Richmond, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Iron Triangle in Richmond, 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 Iron Triangle
Burglary is a strength. Iron Triangle grades F for property crime, but burglary grades A-.
Robberies and car thefts both run high. In Iron Triangle, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 3.3 robberies and 11.1 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 and 2.7 nationally.
How Iron Triangle compares within Richmond
Every part of Iron Triangle grades D or F on the national scale. Grades across Iron Triangle run from D to F; every part of Iron Triangle has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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D or F 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Iron Triangle has less crime than 1 of the 9 neighborhoods in Richmond. It covers much of the Iron Triangle and Atchison Woods areas.
Is crime going up in Richmond?
Since 2019, reported property crime in Richmond as a whole is down 28%, while violent crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 9.4 to 9.1 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 38 to 28 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 14% and property crime fell 13%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
RichmondUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Richmond. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Richmond
Violent, US
Property, Richmond
Property, US
2016
-1%
+4%
-9%
+15%
2017
-2%
+4%
-1%
+12%
2018
+1%
+0%
+4%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-2%
+4%
-17%
-8%
2021
+9%
+6%
-27%
-10%
2022
-2%
+5%
-28%
-6%
2023
+13%
+2%
-18%
-7%
2024
-3%
-4%
-28%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Iron Triangle
CrimeGrade™ estimates Iron Triangle has about 59 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 58% more than the US as a whole and close to Richmond 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 Iron Triangle, about 34% of everything reported, and it also accounts for the largest share of what crime costs here.
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 Richmond
The Richmond Police Department polices Iron Triangle; these figures cover Richmond as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Richmond as a whole, 36% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 50% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (43%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Car theft
Homes (52%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (50%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (48%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (42%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (53%)
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 Iron Triangle compares with nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Iron Triangle, 9 have less crime. Point Richmond and Tara Hills have the least.
Shops, tree cover and walkability in Iron Triangle
Two things set Iron Triangle apart: it has 4.0 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and tree cover over 2% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally. Places with few stores and restaurants 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.4.0 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 86% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.2% where people liveUS: 21%Lower than for 83% 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. 57% of residents here live in walkable areas.B+ (67 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 76% 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.96% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 82% 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 Iron Triangle
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Iron Triangle about $4,034 a year per household, about triple 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 $55 million a year, or $4,049 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 Iron Triangle 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. Iron Triangle 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 Iron Triangle, Richmond, CA average a SchoolGrade of F: 11% of students test proficient, against 18% projected for schools like them. Overall, they underperform expectations. See schools in Iron Triangle on SchoolGrade
