Southeast is a neighborhood of 13,400 residents in Eugene · Updated November 2026
Is Southeast in Eugene safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in Southeast is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Southeast sits near the middle: 44% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 56% in neighborhoods with less. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, A against B. Eugene as a whole grades B+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Southeast run from A to B, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 804 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
44% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Southeast as a whole, and 56% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Southeast scores 804.
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 Southeast, Eugene, OR at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Southeast in Eugene, 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 Southeast
Robberies happen at stores and businesses more often than nationally. In Eugene as a whole, 53% of reported robberies happen at stores and businesses, against 33% nationally.
How Southeast compares within Eugene
Every part of Southeast where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Southeast run from A to B; 57% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Southeast has less crime than 13 of the 17 neighborhoods in Eugene. It covers much of the Southeast, South University, and Fairmount areas.
Is crime going up in Eugene?
Reported crime in Eugene as a whole has fallen since 2019: violent crime is down 20% and property crime down 11%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 4.0 to 3.2 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 37 to 33 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
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Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Eugene. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Eugene
Violent, US
Property, Eugene
Property, US
2016
-7%
+4%
+5%
+15%
2017
-1%
+4%
+3%
+12%
2018
-1%
+0%
-11%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-2%
+4%
+8%
-8%
2021
+2%
+6%
-0%
-10%
2022
-6%
+5%
-8%
-6%
2023
-11%
+2%
-11%
-7%
2024
-20%
-4%
-11%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Southeast
CrimeGrade™ estimates Southeast has about 25 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 32% less than the US as a whole and 48% less than Eugene 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 makes up about 47% of crime reported in Southeast. Assault is less common but 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 Eugene
The Eugene Police Department polices Southeast; these figures cover Eugene as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Eugene as a whole, 60% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 47% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (60%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (32%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (47%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Parking lots and garages (30%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (53%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (53%)
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 Southeast compares with nearby neighborhoods
Southeast has less crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Crest Drive has less.
Night lighting, tree cover and walkability in Southeast
One thing sets Southeast apart: it has tree cover over 40% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally. Places like that tend to report less robbery.
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.59% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 99% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.40% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 97% 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. 75% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (18 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 76% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Southeast: D+ (20 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 95% 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 Southeast
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Southeast about $563 a year per household, 53% 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 $7.7 million a year, or $579 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 Southeast 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 Southeast, Eugene, OR average a SchoolGrade of A+: 52% of students test proficient, against 45% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Southeast on SchoolGrade
