Maplewood-Ashcreek is a neighborhood of 21,100 residents in Portland, about 4 miles southwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Maplewood-Ashcreek in Portland safe?
Crime in Maplewood-Ashcreek is moderate, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of B. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 71% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Maplewood-Ashcreek. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, A- against C+. Portland as a whole grades C. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Maplewood-Ashcreek run from A- to C+, so check the map below.
B
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 680 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
29% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Maplewood-Ashcreek as a whole, and 71% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Maplewood-Ashcreek scores 680.
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 Maplewood-Ashcreek, Portland, OR at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Maplewood-Ashcreek in Portland, 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 Maplewood-Ashcreek
Car thefts happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Portland as a whole, 62% of reported car thefts happen on streets and sidewalks, against 27% nationally.
Simple assault runs low. Maplewood-Ashcreek has 3.5 simple assaults a year per 1,000 residents, less than half the US rate of 9.7.
How Maplewood-Ashcreek compares within Portland
Low crime is the norm across Maplewood-Ashcreek: 96% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across Maplewood-Ashcreek run from A- to C+; 6% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
96%
A or B 96%C 4%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Maplewood-Ashcreek has less crime than 54 of the 64 neighborhoods in Portland. It covers much of the Maplewood-Ashcreek, Far Southwest, and Hillsdale areas.
Is crime going up in Portland?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Portland as a whole is up 27%, while property crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.6 to 7.1 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 53 to 54 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
PortlandUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Portland. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Portland
Violent, US
Property, Portland
Property, US
2016
-10%
+4%
-2%
+15%
2017
-7%
+4%
+8%
+12%
2018
-4%
+0%
+5%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+5%
+4%
-4%
-8%
2021
+41%
+6%
+12%
-10%
2022
+38%
+5%
+20%
-6%
2023
+29%
+2%
+10%
-7%
2024
+26%
-4%
+2%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Maplewood-Ashcreek
CrimeGrade™ estimates Maplewood-Ashcreek has about 35 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 7% less than the US as a whole and 55% less than Portland 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 Maplewood-Ashcreek, about 45% 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 Portland
The Portland Police Department polices Maplewood-Ashcreek; these figures cover Portland as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Portland as a whole, 34% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 35% of them, against 18% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (46%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (62%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (35%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (30%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (51%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Streets and sidewalks (41%)
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 Maplewood-Ashcreek compares with nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Maplewood-Ashcreek, 9 have less crime. Mt. Park and West Slope have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Maplewood-Ashcreek. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Maplewood-Ashcreek is safer than 50% of them.
Tree cover, empty homes and walkability in Maplewood-Ashcreek
Two things set Maplewood-Ashcreek apart: it has tree cover over 41% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally, and 2.8% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally. Places like that tend to report less robbery.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.41% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 98% 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.2.8% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower 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. 70% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (25 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 65% 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.14% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 86% 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 Maplewood-Ashcreek
Crime costs Maplewood-Ashcreek about $871 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 28% less 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 $21 million a year, or $1,001 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 Maplewood-Ashcreek 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
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 Maplewood-Ashcreek, Portland, OR average a SchoolGrade of A+: 52% of students test proficient, against 48% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Maplewood-Ashcreek on SchoolGrade
