Apartment Safety Checker

Safety is one of the top priorities when renting an apartment. Feeling secure in your living space is essential for any renter. Fortunately, there are several steps you can take to assist with your research.

• View the neighborhood crime rate. Using our Apartment Safety Checker tool, you can compare the criminal activity in your chosen community.
• Visit the area. If possible, walk, drive, or take a bus through the area to see how safe it is. If there is a particular route you would use to get to school or work, use that. Consider the quality of the area both during the day and at night.
• During your apartment tour, look for secure entrances and exits; lighting around sidewalks, stairwells, hallways, mailboxes, laundry rooms and other common areas; and security features such as peepholes, deadbolt locks, and any on-site security cameras or officers.

The Apartment Safety Checker Map, created in conjunction with Clayton County Police, provides the numbers on incidents reported within the individual apartment communities. Included as part of the Apartment Safety Checker program are: Part One Crime (murder, rape robbery, aggravated assault, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, narcotics offenses), as well as Disorderly Conduct and Loitering/Prowling*. Any unfounded reports of crime are excluded from the totals.

*For apartment complexes located within city limits, please contact that respective agency for accurate crime statistics.  The Clayton County Police Department only compiles crime statistics for unincorporated areas within Clayton County.