Crime in Tempe, Arizona
Major crime in Tempe is 2.0 times the U.S. rate per resident: 43% higher for persons crimes and 2.2 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 4.8% 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 2.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Tempe 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 Tempe
The middle half of Tempe residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 71 and 196; the typical (median) resident's is 128. The citywide figure (202) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5011.7%
- 50–10028.3%
- 100–20036.0%
- 200–40016.5%
- 400+7.5%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 4.8% 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.
Tempe against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
28 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Tempe; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Tempe has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Guadalupe (3 mi), is 46% below Tempe's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Tempe
What are the most common crimes in Tempe?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 2,408 a year), shoplifting (about 1,582 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 1,017 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.6 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. Tempe's figures add up its 118 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Tempe's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 61.5% 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: 191,152. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Tempe, Arizona." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/az/tempe
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Guadalupe3 mi110
- Chandler9 mi72
- Mesa11 mi83
- Paradise Valley11 mi41
- Gilbert12 mi57
- Sun Lakes13 mi31
- Phoenix13 mi153
- Scottsdale14 mi107