Crime & Safety in Apex
Apex is a rare case in this dataset where its two most-cited crime-data sources substantially agree: both CrimeGrade.org and NeighborhoodScout read Apex as meaningfully safer than average, unlike other markets covered where these two sources point in opposite directions.
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Learn moreCrimeGrade.org's favorable read
CrimeGrade.org cites Apex's violent crime rate at 1.574 incidents per 1,000 residents in a typical year, and separately cites the "cost of crime" per Apex resident at $164 per year -- about $95 below the U.S. average, per its own methodology.
NeighborhoodScout's read points the same direction
NeighborhoodScout separately cites an overall crime rate of 9 per 1,000 residents for Apex, with a roughly 1-in-1,999 chance of being a victim of violent crime specifically and a property crime rate of 9 per 1,000. NeighborhoodScout assigns Apex a crime safety grade of A, describing its overall crime rate as 51% below the national average and lower than 97% of similarly sized U.S. cities and towns.
A genuine point of agreement, unlike other markets in this dataset
Both CrimeGrade.org and NeighborhoodScout read Apex in the same direction -- meaningfully safer than typical -- a real point of methodological agreement worth noting explicitly, since other Tier A markets covered in this dataset (see katy-topics.js, for example) show these same two sources disagreeing sharply. That does not mean the exact numbers match precisely between the two, but the overall verdict is consistent rather than contradictory.
Check a specific address directly, and expect real block-level variance
As with any town, block-level variance is real and can be masked by a townwide statistic from either source. Per site policy, no specific lower-rated area is named here -- check a specific address directly with both CrimeGrade.org and NeighborhoodScout before drawing conclusions about a particular neighborhood.
Key takeaways
- CrimeGrade.org cites Apex's violent crime rate at 1.574 per 1,000 residents and a per-resident crime cost of $164/year (about $95 below the U.S. average).
- NeighborhoodScout cites an overall crime rate of 9 per 1,000 residents (violent crime chance roughly 1 in 1,999), assigning Apex a crime safety grade of A -- 51% below the national average and safer than 97% of similarly sized U.S. communities.
- Unlike some other markets in this dataset, CrimeGrade.org and NeighborhoodScout point in the same direction for Apex -- a real, disclosed point of source agreement rather than the sharp same-direction disagreements seen elsewhere.
- Check a specific address directly with both sources before drawing conclusions about a particular neighborhood; no specific lower-rated area is named here per site policy.
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