Violent & Property Crime
FBI Crime Data Explorer — agency-reported incidents within your radius, weighted by recency and severity.
Primary signalFBI crime records. EPA toxic sites. NOAA disaster risk. NHTSA crash data. Sex offender registries. FEMA flood maps. 11 independent data categories synthesized into one score — for any US address, updated in real time.
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How it works
Type any US address, city, or ZIP code. No account or setup required to get a score.
11 live data streams fire in parallel: FBI crime data, sex offender registries, NHTSA crash records, NOAA weather, FEMA flood maps, air quality, drug incident data, justice metrics, human trafficking hotline data, and EPA toxic exposure.
Within seconds: a 0–100 safety score, category breakdown, and plain-language explanation of what's driving it. Higher is safer.
The problem
76% of sexual assaults are never reported to police. Of the violent crimes that are reported, 56% go unsolved. The person who did it is still in the neighborhood. Today included. The incidents happened. The addresses are logged. The pattern is repeating right now.
Every crime incident, crash record, flood boundary, and toxic exposure site is documented in federal databases. That data sits in public repositories most people will never open — before they sign a lease, before they buy a house, before it matters. The government has already done the work. The only question is whether you look before or after.
SafeScore pulls it in real time, scores it at the address level, and puts it in your hand before you need it.
The national violent crime rate is 359 per 100,000 — 1 in 278 per year. Because 52% of violent crimes go unreported, real exposure is closer to 1 in 134. Over a 5-year lease, cumulative odds that violent crime touches your household are not negligible. Over a 30-year mortgage, the statistical expectation is not zero. At above-average crime locations, it crosses a near-certainty threshold before year ten.
The pattern
These incidents repeat. The data exists at every location. It just isn't accessible when it matters.
Struck in 1999 and again in 2013. Both maximum-intensity tornadoes. Both times, people rebuilt in the same location. — NOAA
145,000 Houston homes sit in the flood zone but aren't shown that way on FEMA maps. — First Street Foundation
Major fires recorded in 1943, 1956, 1978, 1985, 1993, and January 2025 — the most destructive in LA history. — WildfireLA.org
The same beaches. The same currents. Florida accounts for nearly half of all US rip current deaths. — USLA / NIU
EPA sampling confirmed elevated lead levels in 40% of tested homes. An internal memo flagged corrosion risks before residents were told anything. An estimated 100,000 residents were exposed. — EPA / CDC
Across every city studied, crime concentrates in the same small clusters of addresses — year after year. The block next to it stays quiet. The pattern doesn't move. If you are in a high-concentration block, your personal odds are not 1 in 278. They are closer to 1 in 50. The zip code average is hiding that from you. — National Research Council
What gets scored
Real data. Real consequence.
A family researching a move to Charlotte, NC ran SafeScore on their first-choice neighborhood. Overall score: 71 — low crime, safe roads. But Infrastructure & Toxic Exposure came back 19 out of 100. One block away: an EPA-listed toxic release facility with documented air emissions exceeding federal thresholds. They moved three miles east. SafeScore scored that address at 84.
EPA Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) • EJScreen environmental justice data
FBI Crime Data Explorer — agency-reported incidents within your radius, weighted by recency and severity.
Primary signalOverdose incidents, drug-related 911 calls, and arrest data from Socrata public safety datasets.
Active signalOffenders.io registry data — Tier 1/2/3 classification, proximity, and school/park buffer violations.
Active signalNHTSA FARS crash records, DUI incidents, pedestrian crashes, and speed compliance data.
Active signalNOAA tornado and hurricane outlook, USGS earthquake proximity, and wildland fire interface data — mapped to your address.
Active signalFEMA flood zone designation, First Street Foundation flood factor, and 100-year flood recurrence probability for your specific parcel.
Active signalEPA Safe Drinking Water Act violation history, lead service line data, and ECHO facility discharge records within your water system.
Active signalCase clearance rates, prosecution rates, and court disposition times from county and state datasets.
Active signalAirNow EPA air quality index updated hourly. Substance use treatment facility density as a secondary signal.
Active signalNational Human Trafficking Hotline case data by jurisdiction — reported cases, type classification, and state ranking.
Active signalEPA Superfund proximity, toxic release facility density, lead risk, ground subsidence, and structural hazard data via EPA EnviroFacts and EJScreen.
Active signalLocation intelligence report. Threat summary, historical pattern analysis, and actionable context — not just a number.
Premium feature →The scoring engine
SafeScore doesn’t average crime statistics and return a zip code number. Every address is different. 50% of all crime concentrates on 5% of street blocks — the zip code average hides a 10-block swing that means the difference between 1 in 50 odds and 1 in 500. The engine weighs 11 independent data categories in real time — incident recency, severity, pattern frequency, clearance rates, environmental exposure — and resolves them into a single score for one specific address. Not your neighborhood. Not your zip code. Your address. The number you see accounts for what happened there, what went unreported, and what went unsolved. It is not a generalization. It is the specific risk profile of that location.
Every score request triggers real-time API calls to primary government sources. No cached third-party feeds. No aggregators.
Each of the 11 data categories is scored independently — normalized, weighted by incident type, and adjusted for recency and geographic density.
Category scores are resolved into a single 0–100 SafeScore. Higher is safer. Tiers run from Low Risk (80–100) down to Critical (0–19).
Scores update as new incident data becomes available — not on a fixed schedule. If something changes at your address, your score reflects it.
The methodology behind the engine is proprietary. What you see is the output — a score you can trust because every input is traceable to a named primary source.
Criminal justice signal
The other half is whether anyone is ever held accountable. SafeScore factors in criminal justice performance — because a neighborhood where crimes go unsolved is functionally more dangerous than raw incident counts alone can show. Impunity is a risk multiplier.
Families who report a violent crime will never see an arrest. Law enforcement closes 44% of violent cases — the other 56% result in zero accountability. The incident is logged. Nothing else happens. (FBI Crime Data Explorer, 2023)
Killers walk free. The murder clearance rate hit an all-time low of 49.4% in 2020. In 1965 it was above 90%. Today, if someone is killed in your neighborhood, the odds the person responsible faces any consequence are worse than a coin flip. (FBI UCR)
Unsolved homicides in the US between 1965 and 2024. That is not a statistic — it is 352,390 specific addresses where a killing happened, no one was arrested, and the case is still open. Today included. (Project Cold Case)
Rape cases get solved. Clearance rates for sexual assault have dropped 27% since 2014 — meaning roughly 7 out of every 10 reported rapes result in zero arrest. Reported. On record. Unanswered. (FBI Crime Data Explorer)
Why this matters to your score
Law enforcement closes 44% of violent crime cases. The other 56% result in zero arrest. Six out of every ten families who report a violent crime will never see anyone held accountable. A location where incidents go unanswered changes behavior — offenders recognize low-consequence environments, and repeat incidents cluster in those zones. Impunity compounds risk. SafeScore weighs local justice system performance as an independent signal, not a footnote. The score you see accounts for what happened at a location and whether anything was done about it.
For business
Real estate professionals, property managers, and insurance teams use SafeScore to surface location risk data their clients never had access to before. Monthly subscription. No per-report fees.
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Monitor risk across your entire portfolio. Track score changes over time, flag high-risk properties, and back your decisions with data your tenants can verify themselves.
Location risk is underwriting. SafeScore consolidates 11 independent risk signals — crime, road, storm, toxic exposure — into one normalized score per address, updated in real time.
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Real estate platforms, relocation companies, property management, and insurance carriers use SafeScore to answer the question their clients ask on every transaction. Built for embedded use, scaled volume, and direct API integration.
Request enterprise accessBuilt for real estate
Under the Fair Housing Act, agents cannot characterize a neighborhood's safety. But buyers ask on nearly every transaction. SafeScore gives agents a federally sourced, defensible answer they can hand to the client — data, not opinion.
Fair Housing Compliant
SafeScore reports exclusively federal government data — FBI, FEMA, EPA, USGS, NHTSA. No racial or demographic data. No neighborhood characterization. Every data point is sourced, labeled, and traceable to a named federal agency. Designed for use in real estate transactions.
Use case 01
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Use case 02
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Use case 03
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Every score pulls directly from government and authoritative primary sources — never from third-party data brokers or crowdsourced reports.
SafeScore scores incidents and conditions at a location — not the people who live there. The data reflects what happened, not who lives there.
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