Crime in Paradise Valley, Arizona
Major crime in Paradise Valley is 59% below the U.S. rate per resident: 77% lower for persons crimes and 55% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.1% 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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Every crime type in Paradise Valley is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Paradise Valley 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 Paradise Valley
The middle half of Paradise Valley residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 28 and 41; the typical (median) resident's is 37.
- 0–5090.2%
- 50–1006.0%
- 100–2003.8%
- 200–4000.0%
- 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 weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.1% 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.
Paradise Valley against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,699 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Paradise Valley; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Paradise Valley has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Scottsdale (5 mi), is 2.6 times Paradise Valley's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Paradise Valley
What are the most common crimes in Paradise Valley?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 53 a year), burglary (about 13 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 9 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 17% below 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. Paradise Valley's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Paradise Valley's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 0.0% 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: 12,713. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Paradise Valley, Arizona." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/az/paradise-valley
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Scottsdale5 mi107
- Phoenix8 mi153
- Tempe11 mi202
- Guadalupe12 mi110
- Fountain Hills14 mi51
- Glendale14 mi143
- Mesa16 mi83
- Tolleson18 mi261