The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Maple Heights-Lake Desire, Renton, WA: Crime Maps and Statistics

Crime per Capita in Maple Heights-Lake Desire

This overview combines violent, property, and other offenses into a single grade for Maple Heights-Lake Desire. The dedicated violent crime and property crime pages go deeper on each. The map below shows the overall crime rate per 1,000 residents.

 

Maple Heights-Lake Desire, Renton, WA Map of Crime Rates
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Overall Crime Grade™

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Other Crime Grade
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$1.88 million

Cost of Crime™ for Maple Heights-Lake Desire, Renton, WA

In 2025, crime will cost $1,292 per household.

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On the map, green marks the parts of Maple Heights-Lake Desire with the least crime overall and red marks the most. Each area is weighted by the type and severity of every offense, so a place with rare but serious violent crime can grade differently from one with frequent petty theft. The Interpreting the Crime Maps section below explains how to read the colors.

Is Maple Heights-Lake Desire, Renton, WA Safe?

The A overall grade blends the violent, property, and other grades shown above into one measure, set against the average US neighborhood, where Maple Heights-Lake Desire's combined rate is much lower than the norm. Maple Heights-Lake Desire sits in the 85th percentile, ahead of 85% of neighborhoods and behind 15%. The grade covers only Maple Heights-Lake Desire's official city boundaries. See the table below for nearby neighborhoods.

The overall crime rate in Maple Heights-Lake Desire is 20.94 per 1,000 residents in a typical year. Residents generally consider the south part of the neighborhood the safest. Your chance of being a victim ranges from 1 in 29 in the northwest areas to 1 in 65 in the south.

Counting total incidents instead of per-capita rates, the south parts of Maple Heights-Lake Desire, Renton, WA report the most crime, about 25 cases per year. The central part reports the fewest, around 2 per year.

The Cost of Crime™ in Maple Heights-Lake Desire, Renton, WA

Across all crime types, the projected cost of crime in Maple Heights-Lake Desire for 2025 is $1,880,056, about $444 per resident and $1,292 per household. That equals 0.8% of the median household income. These figures cover tangible costs, which include:
  1. Criminal justice system costs (law enforcement, courts, and imprisonment): 47.8%
  2. Direct costs to victims (damaged property, medical expenses, and lost wages): 40.4%
  3. Lost economic contribution from offenders (time in prison or repeat offenses): 11.8%

How Much Does Crime Cost in Maple Heights-Lake Desire Compared to Other Neighborhoods?

Maple Heights-Lake Desire, Renton, WA: $444
New Tacoma, Tacoma, WA: $1762
Moran Prairie, Spokane, WA: $324
Washington: $610
USA: $464

The overall cost of crime per resident in Maple Heights-Lake Desire is $444 per year, which is $21 less than the national average and $167 less than Renton's city average. The comparison below uses neighborhoods similar to Maple Heights-Lake Desire:
  • In New Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, crime costs $1,762 per person, which is $1,318 more than in Maple Heights-Lake Desire.
  • In Moran Prairie, Spokane, WA, crime costs $324 per person, which is $120 less than in Maple Heights-Lake Desire

2025 Projected Cost by Type of Crime

The table below shows the total cost of crime to the residents of Maple Heights-Lake Desire for the year 2025 along with the projected cost per resident.
Crime
Cost to Maple Heights-Lake Desire
Cost per Maple Heights-Lake Desire Resident
Murder
$779,690
$184
Rape/Sexual Assault
$197,703
$47
Robbery
$58,394
$14
Assault
$82,473
$19
Kidnapping
$43,783
$10
Vehicle Theft
$284,830
$67
Burglary
$141,804
$33
Theft
$136,887
$32
Arson
$23,753
$6
Vandalism
$111,875
$26
Animal Cruelty
$207
$0
Drug Crimes
$14,557
$3
Identity Theft
$4,100
$1
Total Cost of Crime
$1,880,056
$444

The Intangible Cost of Crime in Maple Heights-Lake Desire, Renton, WA

The totals above count tangible costs only. Violent crime also carries a human cost, the pain and trauma borne by victims and their families, which research-based methods estimate so it can be compared across places. That intangible cost in Maple Heights-Lake Desire totals $6,156,374 ($1,452 per resident), and all of it comes from violent crime rather than property loss. Added to the tangible costs, the full estimate reaches $8,036,429 ($1,896 per resident). All Cost of Crime figures come from scholarly research on the cost of crime. Read more about our methodology here.

Interpreting the Crime Maps

Crime rates on the map are measured per resident, so areas with heavy visitor traffic can read high because crime follows crowds, even where few people live. The southeast part of the neighborhood holds more retail establishments, which lifts recorded crime around those blocks. A red area does not always mean the neighborhood is unsafe for residents.

Airports, parks, and transit hubs create the same effect. Major airports draw large crowds with few residents nearby, so they read as high-crime spots. Parks and recreational areas do the same, and of Maple Heights-Lake Desire's 4,239 residents few live beside them. Before assuming an area is unsafe, weigh both the per-capita rate and the total number of incidents, and note what sits nearby.

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Maple Heights-Lake Desire Crime Breakdown

The tables below show which crimes are used to calculate the Crime Grades above. All crime rates are shown as the number of crimes per 1,000 Maple Heights-Lake Desire residents in a standard year.

Violent Crime Rates

Crime Type
Crime Rate
Assault
0.6774
Robbery
0.4379
Rape
0.7692
Murder
0.0979
Total Violent Crime
1.982 (A)
 
 

 


Property Crime Rates

Crime Type
Crime Rate
Theft
6.235
Vehicle Theft
4.339
Burglary
3.688
Arson
0.2320
Total Property Crime
14.49 (A-)
 
 

 


Other Crime Rates

Crime Type
Crime Rate
Kidnapping
0.1703
Drug Crimes
0.4643
Vandalism
3.694
Identity Theft
0.1250
Animal Cruelty
0.0066
Total "Other" Rate
4.460 (A-)

 


Crime Maps and Rates for Nearby Neighborhoods

Compared to surrounding neighborhoods, the rate of crime in Maple Heights-Lake Desire is lower. The table below shows Crime Grades for neighborhoods close to Maple Heights-Lake Desire.

Nearby Neighborhood
Overall Crime Grade
Violent Crime Grade
Property Crime Grade
C
A-
D+
F
C+
F
B+
B+
B+
A
B+
A
D+
B
D-
B
B+
C+
A
A
B+
F
C-
F
A-
A-
B
A-
A
B

Crime Maps and Rates for Neighborhood with Similar Populations

Maple Heights-Lake Desire is lower versus other neighborhoods of the same size for crime. The table below compares crime in neighborhoods with comparable overall population in the neighborhood‘s boundaries.

Similar Neighborhood
Overall Crime Grade
Violent Crime Grade
Property Crime Grade
D+
C
C
D
B-
B-
B
C
C
B-
A-
A-
A-
A
A
D-
D+
D+
C
B+
B+
C+
A-
A-
D+
C
C
A-
B-
B-

Considering only the crime rate, Maple Heights-Lake Desire is safer than the Washington state average and safer than the national average.

Safety and school performance are separate topics, but both shape moving decisions. Using SchoolGrade data, schools in Maple Heights-Lake Desire, Renton, WA average SchoolGrade of N/A, with N/A% actual proficiency versus 51% projected; overall, schools N/A. See Maple Heights-Lake Desire schools on SchoolGrade

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