Raleigh Court is a neighborhood of 7,090 residents in Roanoke, about 3 miles southwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Raleigh Court in Roanoke safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B, Raleigh Court has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 74% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Violent and property crime both grade B here. Roanoke as a whole grades B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Raleigh Court run from B+ to C+, so check the map below.
B
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 645 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
26% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Raleigh Court as a whole, and 74% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Raleigh Court scores 645.
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 Raleigh Court, Roanoke, VA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Raleigh Court in Roanoke, 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 Raleigh Court
Car thefts are less common than the crime level suggests. Crime overall in Raleigh Court runs 26% above the US rate, but car thefts run 40% below it: 1.6 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
Crime rates and types in Raleigh Court
CrimeGrade™ estimates Raleigh Court has about 47 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 26% more than the US as a whole and 38% less than Roanoke 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 Raleigh Court, about 43% 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 Roanoke
The Roanoke Police Department polices Raleigh Court; these figures cover Roanoke as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Roanoke as a whole, 65% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 39% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (65%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (38%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (39%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (49%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (34%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (52%)
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 Raleigh Court compares with nearby neighborhoods
Raleigh Court has less crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Tree cover, density and walkability in Raleigh Court
Two things set Raleigh Court apart: it has 15% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and 14 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less robbery and car theft, yet car theft runs higher here than that would suggest.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.28% where people liveUS: 21%Higher 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.15% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 86% 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. 63% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (31 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 55% 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.14 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 81% 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 Raleigh Court
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Raleigh Court about $961 a year per household, 20% 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 $9.0 million a year, or $1,267 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 Raleigh Court 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 Raleigh Court, Roanoke, VA average a SchoolGrade of D: 65% of students test proficient, against 47% projected for schools like them. Overall, they don't meet expectations. See schools in Raleigh Court on SchoolGrade
