Southeast Arlington, Arlington, TX Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Southeast Arlington is a neighborhood of 63,300 residents in Arlington, about 6 miles south of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Southeast Arlington?
Southeast Arlington earns a B+ for violent crime, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 70% of Americans live. Assaults make up 93% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Arlington as a whole grades B for violent crime.
B+
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 745 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
30% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Southeast Arlington as a whole, and 70% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Southeast Arlington scores 745.
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 Southeast Arlington, Arlington, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Southeast Arlington in Arlington, 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 Southeast Arlington
Robberies are less common than in most neighborhoods graded B for violent crime. Southeast Arlington has 0.33 robberies a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a US neighborhood graded B for violent crime, the figure is 0.96.
How Southeast Arlington compares within Arlington
Every part of Southeast Arlington where people live grades A or B for violent crime on the national scale. Violent crime grades across Southeast Arlington run from A to B.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Southeast Arlington has less violent crime than 4 of the 6 neighborhoods in Arlington. It covers much of the Southeast Arlington area.
Is violent crime going up in Arlington?
Reported violent crime in Arlington as a whole peaked in 2021 and has fallen 19% since, back near its 2019 level. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.3 to 4.8 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
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Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Arlington. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Arlington
Violent, US
2016
+4%
+4%
2017
-1%
+4%
2018
-11%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+6%
+4%
2021
+11%
+6%
2022
+9%
+5%
2023
-9%
+2%
2024
-10%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Southeast Arlington
CrimeGrade™ estimates Southeast Arlington has about 13 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about the same as the US as a whole and 33% less than Arlington 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 Southeast Arlington, about 93% 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 Arlington
The Arlington Police Department polices Southeast Arlington; these figures cover Arlington as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Arlington as a whole, 54% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often at stores and businesses: 36% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Stores and businesses (36%)
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 Southeast Arlington and nearby neighborhoods
Southeast Arlington has less violent crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only North Westchester Meadows and Southwest Arlington have less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Southeast Arlington. 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, Southeast Arlington is safer than 60% of them.
Transit, walkability and nightlife in Southeast Arlington
Southeast Arlington looks like a typical neighborhood on the traits that tend to go with violent crime.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Southeast Arlington: F (0 of 100).under 1 trip an hourUS: noneLower than for 90% 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. 88% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (16 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 81% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.0.2 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Lower than for 69% 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.36% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 64% 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 Southeast Arlington
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Southeast Arlington about $62 million a year, or $983 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $15 million, or $230 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
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.
