Northeast is a neighborhood of 103,700 residents in Mesa, about 9 miles east of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Northeast in Mesa safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in Northeast is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Northeast sits near the middle: 47% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 53% in neighborhoods with less. Property crime grades better than violent crime here, A against A-. Mesa as a whole grades B+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Northeast run from A+ to C, so check the map below.
A-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 820 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
47% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Northeast as a whole, and 53% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Northeast scores 820.
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, Mesa, AZ at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Northeast in Mesa, 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
Aggravated assaults run high for an A-graded neighborhood. Northeast has 2.5 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of an A-graded US neighborhood, the figure is 1.2.
Car thefts happen in parking lots and garages far more often than nationally. In Mesa as a whole, 45% of reported car thefts happen in parking lots and garages, against 23% nationally.
How Northeast compares within Mesa
Most of Northeast grades well: 96% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across Northeast run from A+ to C; 53% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
96%
A or B 96%C 4%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Northeast has less crime than 6 of the 7 neighborhoods in Mesa. It covers much of the Northeast area.
Is crime going up in Mesa?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Mesa as a whole is up 27% and property crime is down 22%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 3.8 to 4.8 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 19 to 15 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 11%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
MesaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Mesa. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Mesa
Violent, US
Property, Mesa
Property, US
2016
+11%
+4%
+22%
+15%
2017
+9%
+4%
+14%
+12%
2018
-4%
+0%
+6%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+5%
+4%
+4%
-8%
2021
+11%
+6%
+6%
-10%
2022
+15%
+5%
-4%
-6%
2023
+17%
+2%
-12%
-7%
2024
+27%
-4%
-22%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Northeast
CrimeGrade™ estimates Northeast has about 26 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 29% less than the US as a whole and 27% less than Mesa 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 44% of everything reported, and it also accounts for 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 Mesa
The Mesa Police Department polices Northeast; these figures cover Mesa as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Mesa as a whole, 53% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 46% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (53%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (45%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (46%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (39%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (38%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (51%)
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 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only San Tan Ranch has less.
Two things set Northeast apart: it has a Walk Grade of D- (10 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and tree cover over 2% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally. Places that are hard to get around on foot tend to report less theft and assault, yet assault runs higher here than that would suggest.
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. 94% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (10 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 93% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.2% where people liveUS: 21%Lower than for 89% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.12% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 89% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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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.100% where people liveUS: 78%Lower 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 Northeast
Crime costs Northeast about $720 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 40% less than the US figure of $1,205. The total is about $30 million a year.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost rises to about $91 million a year, or $878 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, Mesa, AZ average a SchoolGrade of B: 39% of students test proficient, against 38% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Northeast on SchoolGrade
