Normandie Heights is a neighborhood of 7,920 residents in Pasadena, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Normandie Heights in Pasadena safe?
Crime in Normandie Heights is moderate, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of B-. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 79% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Normandie Heights. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, B+ against D+. Pasadena as a whole grades B+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Normandie Heights run from B+ to D-, so check the map below.
B-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 571 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
21% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Normandie Heights as a whole, and 79% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Normandie Heights scores 571.
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 Normandie Heights, Pasadena, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Normandie Heights in Pasadena, 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 Normandie Heights
Crime per resident runs lower than the grade suggests. Few people come to Normandie Heights to work or shop: it has only 12 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. With few visitors, its crime per resident looks lower than its CrimeGrade™ suggests. The CrimeGrade™ weighs each crime against the people, homes and parked cars actually here.
Crime rates and types in Normandie Heights
CrimeGrade™ estimates Normandie Heights has about 28 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 26% less than the US as a whole and 30% less than Pasadena 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 makes up about 30% of crime reported in Normandie Heights. Assault is less common but costs more, because each one does far 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 Pasadena
The Pasadena Police Department polices Normandie Heights; these figures cover Pasadena as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Pasadena as a whole, 42% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 52% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (42%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (46%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (52%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Vandalism
Stores and businesses (23%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (50%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Streets and sidewalks (35%)
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 Normandie Heights compares with nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Normandie Heights, 9 have less crime. Chevy Chase and North East have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Normandie Heights. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Normandie Heights is safer than 63% of them.
Shops, parking lots and walkability in Normandie Heights
Two things set Normandie Heights apart: it has 1.5 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 0.1 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places like that 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.1.5 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 97% 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.0.1 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower 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. 69% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (27 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 61% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.12 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower 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 Normandie Heights
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Normandie Heights about $992 a year per household, 18% 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 $8.3 million a year, or $1,045 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 Normandie Heights 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 Normandie Heights, Pasadena, CA average a SchoolGrade of C: 32% of students test proficient, against 30% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Normandie Heights on SchoolGrade
