Rita Ranch, Tucson, AZ Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Rita Ranch is a neighborhood of 18,300 residents in Tucson, about 14 miles southeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Rita Ranch?
Rita Ranch earns an A for violent crime, safer than the neighborhoods where 64% of Americans live. Assaults make up 95% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Tucson as a whole grades B- for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 905 of 1,000Less violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
64% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Rita Ranch as a whole, and 36% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Rita Ranch scores 905.
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 Rita Ranch, Tucson, AZ at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Rita Ranch in Tucson, 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 Rita Ranch
Simple assault runs low. Rita Ranch has 4.7 simple assaults a year per 1,000 residents, about half the US rate of 9.7.
How Rita Ranch compares within Tucson
Every part of Rita Ranch where people live grades A or B for violent crime on the national scale. Violent crime grades across Rita Ranch run from A+ to A.
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Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Rita Ranch has less violent crime than 41 of the 44 neighborhoods in Tucson. It covers much of the Rita Ranch, Stella Mann, and South Harrison areas.
Violent crime rates and types in Rita Ranch
CrimeGrade™ estimates Rita Ranch has about 5.8 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 57% less than the US as a whole and 74% less than Tucson 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 Rita Ranch, about 95% 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.
Violent crime in Rita Ranch and nearby neighborhoods
Rita Ranch has less violent crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Civano has less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Rita Ranch. 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, Rita Ranch is safer than 92% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Rita Ranch apart: it has tree cover over 0% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally, and a Walk Grade of D- (9 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. Places with little tree cover tend to report more robbery.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.under 1% where people liveUS: 21%Lower 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. 93% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (9 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 94% 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 Rita Ranch: D- (7 of 100).1 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 87% 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.18% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 82% 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 Rita Ranch
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Rita Ranch about $6.5 million a year, or $356 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $1.6 million, or $90 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.
