Northeast is a neighborhood of 40,300 residents in Anaheim, about 2 miles northeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Northeast in Anaheim safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B, Northeast has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 71% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Violent crime grades B+ and property crime B-. Anaheim as a whole grades B. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Northeast run from A- to C-, so check the map below.
B
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 681 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
29% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Northeast as a whole, and 71% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Northeast scores 681.
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 Northeast, Anaheim, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Northeast in Anaheim, 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 Northeast
Burglaries happen at stores and businesses far more often than nationally. In Anaheim as a whole, 53% of reported burglaries happen at stores and businesses, against 28% nationally.
How Northeast compares within Anaheim
Most of Northeast grades well: 56% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across Northeast run from A- to C-; 3% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
56%44%
A or B 56%C 44%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Northeast has less crime than 5 of the 7 neighborhoods in Anaheim. It covers much of the Anaheim Hills and Northeast areas.
Is crime going up in Anaheim?
Reported property crime in Anaheim as a whole has fallen 10% since 2019. Too few violent crimes are reported here each year for a reliable violent crime trend. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 23 to 21 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 13%.
Property crime, change since 2019
AnaheimUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Anaheim. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Anaheim
Property, US
2016
+17%
+15%
2017
+13%
+12%
2018
+6%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+10%
-8%
2021
+18%
-10%
2022
+19%
-6%
2023
+3%
-7%
2024
-10%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Northeast
CrimeGrade™ estimates Northeast has about 41 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 9% more than the US as a whole and close to Anaheim 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 Northeast, about 34% 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 Anaheim
The Anaheim Police Department polices Northeast; these figures cover Anaheim as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 44% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (53%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (48%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (26%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (41%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (43%)
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 Northeast compares with nearby neighborhoods
Northeast has less crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
One thing sets Northeast apart: it has 100 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. It also combines many stores and restaurants with a lot of parking-lot space: places with both tend to report more theft and car theft than places with only one of them, and car theft runs high here.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.100 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 88% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.14.0 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 77% 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. 72% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (23 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 67% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.1.4 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 74% 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 Northeast
Crime costs Northeast about $1,777 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 47% 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 $68 million a year, or $1,685 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 Northeast 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 Northeast, Anaheim, CA average a SchoolGrade of B-: 40% of students test proficient, against 40% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Northeast on SchoolGrade
