Maplewood is a neighborhood of 21,100 residents in Rochester, about 3 miles northwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Maplewood in Rochester safe?
Crime in Maplewood is high by national standards, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of C-. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 88% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Maplewood. Violent crime grades C- and property crime D. Rochester as a whole grades B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Maplewood run from B- to F, so check the map below.
C-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 325 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
12% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Maplewood as a whole, and 88% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Maplewood scores 325.
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, Rochester, NY at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Maplewood in Rochester, 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
Acts of vandalism run high for a C-graded neighborhood. Maplewood has 22.8 acts of vandalism a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a C-graded US neighborhood, the figure is 7.4.
Car thefts run high. Maplewood has car thefts at about triple the US rate: 9.2 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Maplewood compares within Rochester
High crime is widespread across Maplewood: 55% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and 6% in areas graded A or B. Grades across Maplewood run from B- to F; every part of Maplewood has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
39%55%
A or B 6%C 39%D or F 55%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Maplewood has less crime than 18 of the 28 neighborhoods in Rochester. It covers much of the Maplewood and Charlotte areas.
Is crime going up in Rochester?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Rochester as a whole is down 23%, while property crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 7.5 to 5.8 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 35 to 33 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 21% and property crime fell 36%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
RochesterUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Rochester. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Rochester
Violent, US
Property, Rochester
Property, US
2016
+19%
+4%
+8%
+15%
2017
+21%
+4%
+11%
+12%
2018
+5%
+0%
-2%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+6%
+4%
-6%
-8%
2021
+8%
+6%
-16%
-10%
2022
+3%
+5%
+5%
-6%
2023
-2%
+2%
+48%
-7%
2024
-23%
-4%
-6%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Maplewood
CrimeGrade™ estimates Maplewood has about 73 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and close to Rochester 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 Maplewood is assault, about 32% 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 Rochester
The Rochester Police Department polices Maplewood; these figures cover Rochester as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Rochester as a whole, 56% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 42% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (56%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (35%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (42%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (30%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (49%)
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 Maplewood compares with nearby neighborhoods
Maplewood has less crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Charlotte has less.
Tree cover, parking lots and walkability in Maplewood
Maplewood looks like a typical neighborhood on the traits that tend to go with crime.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.25% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 86% 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.1.9 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher 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.C (36 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 52% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.6.3 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 68% 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
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Maplewood about $2,277 a year per household, 89% 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 $50 million a year, or $2,361 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 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, Rochester, NY average a SchoolGrade of F: 22% of students test proficient, against 33% projected for schools like them. Overall, they underperform expectations. See schools in Maplewood on SchoolGrade
