Is Evansville mostly quiet? (crime, house, place to live)

[paull]

I am looking at a house on the internet around W/E Virginia St and N Garvin St, it's about 8 or 9 blocks south of Garvin Park and Bosse Field. Could anyone let me know about this area? Any kind of info will be appreciated. Thanks.

[Toxic Toast]

By Evansville standards, it is fairly ghetto. The city's most recent homicide occurred on Iowa Street not to far from there.

But don't let that scare you off from Evansville. It really is a nice place to live with a lot of quiet areas.

[paull]

Thanks

[kygman]

Bosse Field is home to the Evansville Otters semi pro baseball team in the Pioneer League. If you saw the movie "A League of Their Own" with Tom Hanks and Madonna, a big part of it was filmed at Bosse Field.

[matalove]

I would never live in that area. Very high rates of crime are quite common in that section of Evansville.

[erickp]

If you want that general area of town, I'd look to the east of Garvin Park, roughly the area bounded by Garvin Park (Heidelbach) to the west, Maxwell to the south, Stringtown Road to the east and Diamond Ave to the north. Get much further south, and safety is more questionable. West of there is mostly industrial.

In the area you're describing, it's almost a block-by-block situation. Some parts have families who have been there for years, know each other well, and look out for each other. Others are composed of strangers, so there's less of a sense of community protection.