Northeast Durham is a neighborhood of 10,500 residents in Durham, about 4 miles northeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Northeast Durham in Durham safe?
Crime in Northeast Durham is moderate, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of B. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 72% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Northeast Durham. Violent and property crime both grade B here. Durham as a whole grades B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Northeast Durham run from A to F, so check the map below.
B
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 664 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
28% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Northeast Durham as a whole, and 72% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Northeast Durham scores 664.
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 Durham, Durham, NC at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Northeast Durham in Durham, 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 Durham
Burglary stands out among B-graded neighborhoods. For the typical resident of a B-graded US neighborhood, the figure is 2.5 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents; Northeast Durham has 5.8.
Car thefts happen at homes far more often than nationally. In Durham as a whole, 72% of reported car thefts happen at homes, against 33% nationally.
How Northeast Durham compares within Durham
Safety changes a lot from one part of Northeast Durham to the next: 62% of residents live in areas graded A or B, while 27% live in areas graded D or F. Grades across Northeast Durham run from A to F; 4% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
62%11%27%
A or B 62%C 11%D or F 27%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Northeast Durham has less crime than 4 of the 6 neighborhoods in Durham. It covers much of the Northeast Durham area.
Is crime going up in Durham?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Durham as a whole is down 16%, while property crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 7.3 to 6.2 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts stayed at about 38 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
DurhamUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Durham. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Durham
Violent, US
Property, Durham
Property, US
2016
+11%
+4%
-3%
+15%
2017
+12%
+4%
+0%
+12%
2018
-2%
+0%
-7%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+19%
+4%
-0%
-8%
2021
+4%
+6%
-11%
-10%
2022
-7%
+5%
-14%
-6%
2023
-13%
+2%
-1%
-7%
2024
-16%
-4%
-1%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Northeast Durham
CrimeGrade™ estimates Northeast Durham has about 46 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 23% more than the US as a whole and 24% less than Durham 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 Durham, about 37% 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 Durham
The Durham Police Department polices Northeast Durham; these figures cover Durham as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Durham as a whole, 62% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 61% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (62%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Car theft
Homes (72%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Homes (61%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (61%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (41%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (54%)
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 Durham compares with nearby neighborhoods
Northeast Durham has more crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. University of NC at Chapel Hill and Northwest Raleigh have the least crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Northeast Durham. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Northeast Durham has more crime than 62% of them.
Tree cover, walkability and night lighting in Northeast Durham
Two things set Northeast Durham apart: it has tree cover over 51% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally, and a Walk Grade of F (2 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. 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.51% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 99% 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. 100% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.F (2 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 99% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.73% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 99% 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.9% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 92% 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 Durham
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Northeast Durham about $2,010 a year per household, 67% 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 $24 million a year, or $2,297 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 Durham 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 Durham, Durham, NC average a SchoolGrade of D-: 42% of students test proficient, against 30% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Northeast Durham on SchoolGrade
