🔍 CrimeGrade Scraper

❓ What is this scraper?

This scraper extracts structured crime statistics and safety data from crimegrade.org.

CrimeGrade is a platform that grades US cities and neighborhoods on their crime levels, providing detailed breakdowns of violent crime, property crime, cost of crime, and more.

This scraper collects clean and consistent crime data such as:

• Overall and category crime grades (violent, property, other)
• Crime rates per category (assault, robbery, theft, etc.)
• Cost of crime per resident and total city cost
• Crime cost comparison against state and national averages
• Nearby cities crime grades for regional context

All data is standardized into a structured format, making it easy to use for analysis, integrations, or storage.

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⚡ Why this scraper?

CrimeGrade provides highly valuable, structured crime data that is difficult to collect at scale manually.

With this scraper, you can:

• Assess the safety of US cities and neighborhoods
• Compare crime rates across regions
• Analyze the economic cost of crime per city
• Build datasets for real estate apps, relocation tools, or research
• Identify the safest or most dangerous areas in a state

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📥 Input

{
  "zipCodes": ["12345"],
  "cityUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-virginia-beach-va/"
    }
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

You can provide ZIP codes, direct city URLs, or both. ZIP codes are automatically resolved to their corresponding city pages.

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📤 Output

Each city is returned as a structured JSON object:

{
  "url": "https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-schenectady-ny/",
  "title": "The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Schenectady, NY: Crime Maps and Statistics",
  "overall_crime_grade": "B-",
  "grades": {
    "violent_crime_grade": "C-",
    "property_crime_grade": "C-",
    "other_crime_grade": "A+"
  },
  "crime_cost": {
    "rows": [
      { 
        "crime": "Assault",
        "costToCity": "$8.64 million", 
        "costPerResident": "$62"
      }
    ],
    "totals": {
      "costToCity": "$43,271,430",
      "costPerResident": "$309"
    }
  },
  "crime_cost_comparison": [
    { "label": "Schenectady, NY", "cost": "$309" },
    { "label": "New York", "cost": "$335" },
    { "label": "USA", "cost": "$464" }
  ],
  "crime_rate": [
    { "label": "assault", "rate": "2.287" },
    { "label": "robbery", "rate": "1.064" },
    { "label": "total_violent_crime", "rate": "3.722 (C-)" },
    { "label": "theft", "rate": "12.72" },
    { "label": "total_property_crime", "rate": "16.36 (C-)" }
  ],
  "nearby_cities_crime": [
    {
      "city": "Rotterdam, NY",
      "url": "https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-rotterdam-ny/",
      "overall_crime_grade": "B-",
      "violent_crime_grade": "C",
      "property_crime_grade": "C-"
    }
  ]
}

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Image Credit: https://crimegrade.org/