CrimeMetric

Crime in Thatcher, Arizona

Major crime in Thatcher is 63% below the U.S. rate per resident: 81% lower for persons crimes and 60% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.8% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
37
63% below the U.S. rate
66% below the Arizona rate
down 7.8% in a year
Persons crimes
19
81% below the U.S. rate
85% below the Arizona rate
down 5.3% in a year
Property crimes
41
60% below the U.S. rate
60% below the Arizona rate
down 8.1% in a year
Social disorder
41
59% below the U.S. rate
65% below the Arizona rate
down 6.0% in a year

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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Crime by type

Every crime type in Thatcher is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Thatcher for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Thatcher

Thatcher is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 44; the middle half of residents live where it is between 11 and 62.

Map of Thatcher, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5057.1%
  • 50–10042.9%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest on weekend daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm36
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am37
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm40
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am35
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.8% in a year; across Arizona it fell 3.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.8%AZ -3.2%-10.9%AZ -9.4%
Persons crimes-5.3%AZ +2.1%+4.2%AZ +1.4%
Property crimes-8.1%AZ -4.5%-12.5%AZ -12.2%
Social disorder-6.0%AZ -0.6%-1.8%AZ -3.4%

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.

Similar-size places

Thatcher against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents

1,324 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Thatcher; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

Perry, OK4,19991
Armona, CA4,20581
Mora, MN4,19644
Thatcher, AZ4,20037

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Thatcher 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, Safford (3 mi), is 2.6 times Thatcher's rate.

Globe71 mi363
Catalina70 mi145
Willcox41 mi99
Safford3 mi94
San Carlos57 mi77
Benson68 mi70
San Manuel53 mi51
Thatcher37

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Thatcher

What are the most common crimes in Thatcher?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 11 a year), other larceny (about 8 a year) and burglary (about 3 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 20% 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. Thatcher's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Thatcher has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 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: 4,200. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Thatcher, Arizona." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/az/thatcher

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100