Lower Valley is a neighborhood of 49,000 residents in El Paso, about 9 miles east of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Lower Valley in El Paso safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B, Lower Valley has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 70% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Violent crime grades B and property crime B+. El Paso as a whole grades B+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Lower Valley run from A- to C+, so check the map below.
B
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 689 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
30% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Lower Valley as a whole, and 70% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Lower Valley scores 689.
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 Lower Valley, El Paso, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Lower Valley in El Paso, 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
How Lower Valley compares within El Paso
Most of Lower Valley grades well: 97% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across Lower Valley run from A- to C+; every part of Lower Valley has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
97%
A or B 97%C 3%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Lower Valley has less crime than 5 of the 20 neighborhoods in El Paso. It covers much of the Lower Valley and Save The Valley 21 areas and the East Side area.
Is crime going up in El Paso?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in El Paso as a whole is down 23%, while property crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 3.6 to 2.8 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 16 to 15 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 11%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
El PasoUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve El Paso. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, El Paso
Violent, US
Property, El Paso
Property, US
2016
+9%
+4%
+17%
+15%
2017
+6%
+4%
+19%
+12%
2018
+4%
+0%
-2%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-10%
+4%
-15%
-8%
2021
-27%
+6%
-16%
-10%
2022
-14%
+5%
-11%
-6%
2023
-14%
+2%
+4%
-7%
2024
-23%
-4%
-4%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Lower Valley
CrimeGrade™ estimates Lower Valley has about 45 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 21% more than the US as a whole and 28% more than El Paso 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.
The largest share of crime reported in Lower Valley is assault, about 43% of the total. It also makes up 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 El Paso
The El Paso Police Department polices Lower Valley; these figures cover El Paso as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In El Paso as a whole, 55% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 44% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (55%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (42%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (46%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (41%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (47%)
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 Lower Valley compares with nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Lower Valley, 6 have less crime. Las Tierras and Stonehaven have the least.
Tree cover, parking lots and walkability in Lower Valley
One thing sets Lower Valley apart: it has tree cover over 1% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally. Places like that tend to report more robbery, and it runs high here.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.1% where people liveUS: 21%Lower than for 93% 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.2.3 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 89% 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. 75% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (22 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 69% 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.25% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 75% 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 Lower Valley
Crime costs Lower Valley about $1,368 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 14% 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 $77 million a year, or $1,576 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 Lower Valley 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 Lower Valley, El Paso, TX average a SchoolGrade of B+: 51% of students test proficient, against 29% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Lower Valley on SchoolGrade
