Liberty Heights, Springfield, MA Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Liberty Heights is a neighborhood of 15,600 residents in Springfield, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Liberty Heights?
Liberty Heights grades B for violent crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 79% of Americans live. Assaults make up 90% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Springfield as a whole grades C for violent crime.
B
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 636 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
21% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Liberty Heights as a whole, and 79% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Liberty Heights scores 636.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Liberty Heights, Springfield, MA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Liberty Heights in Springfield, 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 about violent crime in Liberty Heights
Robbery at more than triple the US rate. Liberty Heights has 2.6 robberies a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
How Liberty Heights compares within Springfield
High violent crime is widespread across Liberty Heights: 52% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and 10% in areas graded A or B. Violent crime grades across Liberty Heights run from A to F.
10%38%52%
A or B 10%C 38%D or F 52%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Liberty Heights has less violent crime than 13 of the 16 neighborhoods in Springfield. It covers much of the Liberty Heights area.
Is violent crime going up in Springfield?
Reported violent crime in Springfield as a whole has held about steady since 2019, within 2%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 9.2 to 9.0 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
SpringfieldUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Springfield. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Springfield
Violent, US
2016
+14%
+4%
2017
-3%
+4%
2018
+10%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+5%
+4%
2021
+3%
+6%
2022
-5%
+5%
2023
-3%
+2%
2024
-2%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Liberty Heights
CrimeGrade™ estimates Liberty Heights has about 36 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and close to Springfield as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Liberty Heights, about 90% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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 violent crime happens in Springfield
The Springfield Police Department polices Liberty Heights; these figures cover Springfield as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Springfield as a whole, 47% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 31% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (31%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (47%)
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.
Violent crime in Liberty Heights and nearby neighborhoods
Liberty Heights has the least violent crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Liberty Heights. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Liberty Heights has more violent crime than 56% of them.
Tree cover, walkability and transit in Liberty Heights
Liberty Heights looks like a typical neighborhood on the traits that tend to go with violent crime.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.27% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 88% 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 assault. 66% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (26 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 62% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Liberty Heights: C (36 of 100).11 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 58% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.37 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 57% 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 violent crime costs Liberty Heights
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Liberty Heights about $49 million a year, or $3,160 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $11 million, or $721 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Liberty Heights is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
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.
