Crime & Safety in Peoria
Peoria shows a genuinely strong CrimeGrade safety picture -- 46% below the national crime average with an A- overall grade, and every studied neighborhood grading A- or higher -- alongside a somewhat higher NeighborhoodScout reading, disclosed as a real, if more moderate, version of the cross-source disagreement pattern documented elsewhere in this dataset.
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Learn moreCrimeGrade's strongly favorable read
CrimeGrade describes Peoria's overall crime rate as 46% below the national average, with an A- overall safety grade for 2026, citing a property crime rate of 11.48 per 1,000 and a violent crime rate of 2.452 per 1,000. Notably, every one of the 7 Peoria neighborhoods CrimeGrade studied for 2026 graded A- or higher, with 2 -- Vistancia South and Mesquite -- earning the top A+ grade, a genuinely strong, broad-based safety picture rather than a few high-scoring pockets offsetting weaker areas.
NeighborhoodScout's somewhat less favorable, but not sharply conflicting, read
NeighborhoodScout separately cites a higher overall rate of 15 crimes per 1,000 residents for Peoria -- not among the highest-crime communities nationally by its own framing, but a real, disclosed difference in magnitude from CrimeGrade's more favorable read. This is a genuine, if more moderate, version of the crime-data disagreement pattern documented for Kennesaw, GA elsewhere in this dataset, rather than a sharply conflicting split.
Both sources agree Peoria reads as comparatively safe overall
Despite the numeric difference between CrimeGrade's 46%-below-national reading and NeighborhoodScout's higher 15-per-1,000 figure, both sources' overall framing -- CrimeGrade's A- grade and NeighborhoodScout's 'not among the highest-crime communities' characterization -- point toward Peoria as a comparatively safe Phoenix-metro market, disclosed honestly rather than either inflated or understated.
Check a specific address directly; no area is named as lower-rated here per site policy
Per site policy, no specific lower-rated area within Peoria is named here, even though CrimeGrade's own 2026 data names Vistancia South and Mesquite as its top-graded (A+) neighborhoods -- that positive citation is disclosed, but no comparatively lower-graded area is singled out. Confirm current, address-specific data directly with both CrimeGrade.org and NeighborhoodScout before finalizing a decision.
Key takeaways
- CrimeGrade cites Peoria's overall crime rate as 46% below the national average with an A- overall grade for 2026 -- every one of 7 studied neighborhoods graded A- or higher, with Vistancia South and Mesquite earning the top A+ grade.
- NeighborhoodScout separately cites a higher overall rate of 15 crimes per 1,000 residents -- a real, disclosed difference from CrimeGrade's more favorable read, though a more moderate version of the cross-source disagreement pattern documented for Kennesaw, GA elsewhere in this dataset.
- Both sources' overall framing points toward Peoria as a comparatively safe Phoenix-metro market, despite the numeric difference between them -- disclosed honestly rather than inflated or understated.
- No specific lower-rated area within Peoria is named here per site policy, even though CrimeGrade names its top-graded neighborhoods -- confirm current, address-specific data directly with both sources before finalizing a decision.
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