Upper South Providence is a neighborhood of 4,560 residents in Providence, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Upper South Providence in Providence safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B-, Upper South Providence has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 76% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Violent crime grades B and property crime B-. Providence as a whole grades B. Its neighborhoods are much alike, from C+ to C-; see the map below.
B-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 611 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
24% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Upper South Providence as a whole, and 76% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Upper South Providence scores 611.
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 Upper South Providence, Providence, RI at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Upper South Providence in Providence, 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
Crime rates and types in Upper South Providence
CrimeGrade™ estimates Upper South Providence has about 54 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 46% more than the US as a whole and 57% more than Providence 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 Upper South Providence, about 34% 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 Providence
The Providence Police Department polices Upper South Providence; these figures cover Providence as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Providence as a whole, 76% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 30% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (76%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (34%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (30%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (38%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (48%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (36%)
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 Upper South Providence compares with nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Upper South Providence, 6 have less crime. Wayland and College Hill have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Upper South Providence. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Upper South Providence is safer than 67% of them.
Jobs, walkability and transit in Upper South Providence
Two things set Upper South Providence apart: it has 264 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and a Walk Grade of A- (76 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. It also combines many jobs with busy transit: places with both tend to report more theft and robbery than places with only one of them, yet theft runs lower here than that would suggest.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.264 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher 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. 78% of residents here live in walkable areas.A- (76 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 81% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 Upper South Providence: C (33 of 100).33 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 80% 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.90% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 74% 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 Upper South Providence
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Upper South Providence about $2,319 a year per household, 92% 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 $13 million a year, or $2,907 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 Upper South Providence 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 Upper South Providence, Providence, RI average a SchoolGrade of D-: 22% of students test proficient, against 21% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Upper South Providence on SchoolGrade
