Crime in Maricopa, Arizona
Major crime in Maricopa is 20% below the U.S. rate per resident: 5% lower for persons crimes and 23% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 13.2% 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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Vandalism, disorderly conduct and trespassing stand out most, at about 29% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Maricopa 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 Maricopa
The middle half of Maricopa residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 44 and 72; the typical (median) resident's is 52. The citywide figure (80) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5043.8%
- 50–10036.7%
- 100–2007.2%
- 200–40012.3%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 13.2% 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.
Maricopa against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
326 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Maricopa; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Maricopa has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Sun Lakes (14 mi), is 61% below Maricopa's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Maricopa
What are the most common crimes in Maricopa?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 395 a year), shoplifting (about 291 a year) and aggravated assault (about 207 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 29% above 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. Maricopa's figures add up its 28 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Maricopa has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 57.3% 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: 82,207. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Maricopa, Arizona." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/az/maricopa
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Sun Lakes14 mi31
- Chandler19 mi72
- Casa Grande20 mi92
- Guadalupe21 mi110
- Tempe24 mi202
- Gilbert24 mi57
- Queen Creek26 mi42
- San Tan Valley28 mi27