Crime rates for Queen Creek, AZ

Queen Creek has an overall crime rate of 26 per 1,000 residents, making the crime rate here near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America. According to our analysis of FBI crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Queen Creek is 1 in 38. How does Queen Creek fare compared to other communities in Arizona of all population sizes? Queen Creek's crime rate is lower than approximately 60% of Arizona communities.

However, when you compare Queen Creek to other towns of similar population, the Queen Creek crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how Queen Creek does relative to all communities in America of all sizes, when NeighborhoodScout compared it to communities of similar population size, its crime rate per thousand residents stands out as higher than most.

The crime data that NeighborhoodScout used for this analysis are the seven offenses from the uniform crime reports, collected by the FBI from 17,000 local law enforcement agencies, and include both violent and property crimes, combined.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Queen Creek does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Queen Creek.

NeighborhoodScout's research shows that Queen Creek's violent crime rate is 2 per one thousand inhabitants, which is about average for all communities in America, across all population sizes. Violent crimes that are tracked and included in this rate are armed robbery, aggravated assault, forcible (not statutory) rape, and murder and non-negligent manslaughter. Roughly similar to the national average, our analysis shows that your chance of becoming a victim of violent crime in Queen Creek is one in 541.

Moreover, the rate of property crime in Queen Creek – burglary, larceny ($50 or more), grand theft auto, and arson – is 24 per 1,000 residents. This is about average for all cities and towns in America of all population sizes.