Northeast Durham, Durham, NC Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Northeast Durham is a neighborhood of 10,500 residents in Durham, about 4 miles northeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Northeast Durham?
Violent crime is high in Northeast Durham: a B, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 77% of Americans live. Assaults make up 91% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Durham as a whole grades B- for violent crime.
B
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 661 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
23% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Northeast Durham as a whole, and 77% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Northeast Durham scores 661.
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 Northeast Durham, Durham, NC at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Northeast Durham in Durham, 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
How Northeast Durham compares within Durham
Violent crime changes a lot from one part of Northeast Durham to the next: 62% of residents live in areas graded A or B, while 33% live in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across Northeast Durham run from A to F.
62%33%
A or B 62%C 5%D or F 33%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Northeast Durham has less violent crime than 4 of the 6 neighborhoods in Durham. It covers much of the Northeast Durham area.
Is violent crime going up in Durham?
Reported violent crime in Durham as a whole has fallen 16% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 7.3 to 6.2 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
DurhamUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Durham. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Durham
Violent, US
2016
+11%
+4%
2017
+12%
+4%
2018
-2%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+19%
+4%
2021
+4%
+6%
2022
-7%
+5%
2023
-13%
+2%
2024
-16%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Northeast Durham
CrimeGrade™ estimates Northeast Durham has about 13 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about the same as the US as a whole and 21% less than Durham 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 Northeast Durham, about 91% 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 Durham
The Durham Police Department polices Northeast Durham; these figures cover Durham as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Durham as a whole, 54% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often at stores and businesses: 41% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Stores and businesses (41%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (54%)
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 Northeast Durham and nearby neighborhoods
Northeast Durham has more violent crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. University of NC at Chapel Hill and Six Forks have the least violent crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Northeast Durham. 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, Northeast Durham has more violent crime than 64% of them.
Tree cover, walkability and density in Northeast Durham
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Northeast Durham apart: it has tree cover over 51% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally, and a Walk Grade of F (2 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less robbery.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.51% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 99% 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. 100% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.F (2 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 99% 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.9% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 92% 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 robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Northeast Durham: F (6 of 100).4 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 71% 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 Northeast Durham
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Northeast Durham about $21 million a year, or $2,043 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $4.1 million, or $388 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.
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.
