Real Estate company and homeowner in Tacoma here. I'm in all the neighborhoods around JBLM all the time. Lakewood and Tacoma especially because of JBLM. In my opinion, Tacoma and Lakewood are both neighborhood by neighborhood. You can be in a D-class neighborhood in either city, travel 2 miles in any direction and be in a B-class neighborhood. Neighborhoods also change over time, so it's worth spending some time driving around and experiencing it for yourself.
We've sold houses in really fantastic neighborhoods in both cities, and the buyers have loved them. And, there are others we wouldn't even feel safe putting families into homes. It comes down to research. If you're looking in the city limits of Lakewood and Tacoma, go check out the interactive crime maps for both cities. For everything else, check out the Pierce County Crime Map: https://gisdata-piercecowa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/crime-data/explore.
If I had to pick 2 areas to stay away from in each city, I'd say steer clear of the areas immediately West of the Tacoma mall, and for Lakewood I'd steer clear of Tillicum.
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Reply to Is Lakewood fairly safer than Tacoma? by westmaxia
Real Estate company and homeowner in Tacoma here. I'm in all the neighborhoods around JBLM all the time. Lakewood and Tacoma especially because of JBLM. In my opinion, Tacoma and Lakewood are both neighborhood by neighborhood. You can be in a D-class neighborhood in either city, travel 2 miles in any direction and be in a B-class neighborhood. Neighborhoods also change over time, so it's worth spending some time driving around and experiencing it for yourself.
We've sold houses in really fantastic neighborhoods in both cities, and the buyers have loved them. And, there are others we wouldn't even feel safe putting families into homes. It comes down to research. If you're looking in the city limits of Lakewood and Tacoma, go check out the interactive crime maps for both cities. For everything else, check out the Pierce County Crime Map: https://gisdata-piercecowa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/crime-data/explore.
If I had to pick 2 areas to stay away from in each city, I'd say steer clear of the areas immediately West of the Tacoma mall, and for Lakewood I'd steer clear of Tillicum.
Good Luck!