Crime in Catalina, Arizona
Major crime in Catalina is 45% above the U.S. rate per resident: 14% lower for persons crimes and 1.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.5% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Shoplifting stands out most, at 4.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Catalina for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Catalina
The middle half of Catalina residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 66 and 143; the typical (median) resident's is 82. The citywide figure (145) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5018.1%
- 50–10038.1%
- 100–20022.9%
- 200–40020.8%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.5% in a year; across Arizona it fell 3.2%
Change in expected crimes, with Arizona as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Catalina against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
280 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Catalina; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Catalina has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Oro Valley (6 mi), is 61% below Catalina's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Catalina
What are the most common crimes in Catalina?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 83 a year), other larceny (about 30 a year) and aggravated assault (about 15 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 4.0 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Catalina's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Catalina has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 79.2% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 6,602. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Catalina, Arizona." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/az/catalina
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Oro Valley6 mi56
- Casas Adobes12 mi155
- Catalina Foothills13 mi112
- Flowing Wells15 mi161
- Marana15 mi56
- Tanque Verde17 mi48
- San Manuel17 mi51
- Tucson Mountains17 mi54