Are they any more or any less susceptible to
break in's , burglaries or home invasions?

I would think it less likely for a burglar to pick a house with only one way out. Of coarse there are a lot of really dumb crooks out there.

Jim

I live in one.

You definitely know who belongs there and who does not...

Do you have neighbors who live directly behind you? Easier to sneak up unseen from behind than to go past the gauntlet.

You're more worried about the area off of the street (behind and to the sides of the house) than you are of the street (where it's a little more obvious if someone's approaching or leaving with loot).

I currently live on one. We had a fun incident where we heard the sound of a revving engine getting louder past the house then the screech of tires. I figured it was the A-Hole across the street doing typical sports car attention getting.

I heard a number of car doors closing and the faint sounds of radio/police communications and noticed 8 police cars all crammed near the end of our cul de sac. Turns out they were after someone that stole a motorcycle. The fool didn't know it was a dead end street and slammed the bike into the barrier and a neighbor's house.

Dude must have been part cat because he hopped over that fence and I don't know if the police caught up with him.

My neighborhood is small. One way in and one way out, and every street ends in a cul de sac. We live at the end of one of them. It definitely cuts down on casual traffic, and naturally keeps speed down as well. We aren't immune to theft, but it is almost unheard of here. There have been no break-ins and the only theft was a lawnmower stolen out of a driveway many years ago.

A small neighborhood where everyone pretty much knows everyone else, with only one avenue of escape, is a good deterrent.



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I live in the exact same kind of neighborhood as TigerDore, only one way in. Nice area, Zero crime. About every 6 months, a patrol car drives through.

One day in the middle of the afternoon I looked out my office window and saw 4 police cars parked 2 houses down from mine. One cop in the front and one in the back, behind trees, with guns drawn and pointed at the house! A few minutes later, the homeowner drove up, talked to a cop for a minute, then opened the garage door, went in... and reset the alarm! I never heard what triggered the false alarm.

The Burglary rings we had targeted homes that were slightly more secluded. They backed up to wooded areas or empty fields. They were the end unit in a run of homes away from high traffic areas. Cul de sacs didn't seem to matter, per se.

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Originally posted by Wreckless:
The Burglary rings we had targeted homes that were slightly more secluded. They backed up to wooded areas or empty fields. They were the end unit in a run of homes away from high traffic areas. Cul de sacs didn't seem to matter, per se.

Same here. We had two houses hit in a cul-de-sac in the middle of the afternoon. The houses backed up against the woods and had no alarm systems until after they got burgled. One guy kept spare change in a big water bottle. The sheriff's deputies followed a trail of coins through the woods to a nearby road.

The house I grew up in, my parents have lived in for almost 50 years and it’s at the end of a long cul de sac. It’s on a very interior street of a neighborhood. You need to make multiple turns off the nearest main road to get to their street. No house on this block has ever been broken into in all those years.

We live at the end of a dead end street. My neighbor, who is a former warden at the Tennessee State Penitentiary, says we are pretty safe as criminals do not like having only one point of egress.

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Originally posted by greco:
Do you have neighbors who live directly behind you? Easier to sneak up unseen from behind than to go past the gauntlet.

I agree. My neighborhood has a lot of cul de sacs and I live in one but what seems to matter is access behind the house and visibility. All the break ins I'm aware of here have occurred from the back of the house.

thanks to those choosing to
add in .
I was just wondering if its possible for the city planners to knowingly design a safer or more secure
neighborhood .

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Originally posted by bendable:
thanks to those choosing to
add in .
I was just wondering if its possible for the city planners to knowingly design a safer or more secure
neighborhood .

Yes it is. Dont name a street MLK Blvd.


Any land being developed now is done by private developers. They have no concerns about safety planning and are only concerned about adding the maximum amount of houses with the minimal costs.