Madison Park

My fiance and i have been looking in your neighborhood for our first home! We love the neighborhood but are a little nervous about the break ins / theft. We have looked at a few homes in the neighborhood....one on Wexford which is close to south blvd and a few further in the closer to park rd. Do any of you that live in the neighborhood have any suggestions or could help us out with what area is the safest? We really love the neighborhood but we want to be safe. Thank you so much for your feed back!

Crime is spotty and not really that bad.  You can research it yourself by looking at the start of our minutes online going back to 2002.  Look right hand margin home page and click on them.  Info is at the beginning each month.    Most of the time it is garage doors,unlocked doors, or unsecured yard tools that get swiped.  Interior I would guess is the area with the least amount of activity.   Break ins come in spurts but there are enough folks around that they normally don't go unsolved.   Break ins normally travel Starmount, Montclaire, and then Madison Park.   Almost always a good discripton is obtained of mode of travel or of suspects.   CMPD also keeps the HOA updated and we send out alerts and post info if the need occurs on this site.

People are pretty pro active in this neighborhood and do a fairly good job of calling things in to 911 that look out of place.   

kschwartz@cmpd.org Officer Swartz is one of our community officers.   Shoot her an e-mail and I am sure she could give you a little more info that might assist with your decision.

All the fringe area have easier access to get away so that is another reason I say stick with interior streets. 

Really no more crime here than Dilworth or other neighborhoods.

I've lived in Madison Park for almost 4 years and I've never felt unsafe with where I live (I live in the "Old Woods" section of Madison Park).  I think overall, Madison Park is a safe neighborhood but it never hurts to have a house alarm and maybe a dog for peace of mind :)

That is Officer Schwartz or Sgt. Hulsey also sends out an area #3 Newsletter which includes Madison Park.

 Those are posted on our web site under Safety and Crime under our page heading.  They include incidents in the business sections bordering our community.