Northeast is a neighborhood of 29,100 residents in Columbus, about 6 miles northeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Northeast in Columbus safe?
Northeast is among the higher-crime places in the US: an overall CrimeGrade™ of D+, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 90% of Americans live. Violent crime grades D- and property crime C. Columbus as a whole grades C. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Northeast run from B+ to F, so check the map below.
D+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 233 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
10% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Northeast as a whole, and 90% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Northeast scores 233.
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, Columbus, OH at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Northeast in Columbus, 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
Reported rapes run high for a D-graded neighborhood. Northeast has 1.4 reported rapes a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a D-graded US neighborhood, the figure is 0.48.
Aggravated assault is a strength. Northeast grades D- for violent crime, but aggravated assault grades A-.
How Northeast compares within Columbus
High crime is widespread across Northeast: 85% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and 6% in areas graded A or B. Grades across Northeast run from B+ to F; every part of Northeast has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
85%
A or B 6%C 9%D or F 85%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Northeast has less crime than 19 of the 46 neighborhoods in Columbus. It covers much of the Northland and Northeast areas.
Is crime going up in Columbus?
Reported crime in Columbus as a whole has fallen since 2019: violent crime is down 17% and property crime down 23%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.2 to 4.3 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 34 to 26 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 17% and property crime fell 19%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
ColumbusUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Columbus. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Columbus
Violent, US
Property, Columbus
Property, US
2016
+5%
+4%
+21%
+15%
2017
+1%
+4%
+18%
+12%
2018
-0%
+0%
+8%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+20%
+4%
-3%
-8%
2021
+34%
+6%
+2%
-10%
2022
+3%
+5%
+6%
-6%
2023
+0%
+2%
-4%
-7%
2024
-17%
-4%
-23%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Northeast
CrimeGrade™ estimates Northeast has about 75 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and close to Columbus 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.
Assault is the most common crime in Northeast, about 29% of everything reported.
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 Columbus
The Columbus Police Department polices Northeast; these figures cover Columbus as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Columbus as a whole, 59% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 58% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (59%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (33%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (58%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Parking lots and garages (34%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (28%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (50%)
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 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Two things set Northeast apart: it has a Walk Grade of D (14 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 16.8 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. 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 they run high here.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.2.5 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 91% 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. 90% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (14 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 85% 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.16.8 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 84% 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.79 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 83% 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 $3,431 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, about triple 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 $139 million a year, or $4,794 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
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, Columbus, OH average a SchoolGrade of D-: 38% of students test proficient, against 20% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Northeast on SchoolGrade
