Crime in Arroyo Grande, California
Major crime in Arroyo Grande is 57% below the U.S. rate per resident: 42% lower for persons crimes and 60% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.6% 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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No crime type in Arroyo Grande is more than 10% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Arroyo Grande 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 Arroyo Grande
The middle half of Arroyo Grande residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 27 and 59; the typical (median) resident's is 31. The citywide figure (44) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5065.4%
- 50–10031.1%
- 100–2003.5%
- 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 7.6% in a year; across California it fell 7.4%
Change in expected crimes, with California as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Arroyo Grande against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,644 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Arroyo Grande; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Arroyo Grande has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Grover Beach (2 mi), is 23% above Arroyo Grande's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Arroyo Grande
What are the most common crimes in Arroyo Grande?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 44 a year), aggravated assault (about 27 a year) and shoplifting (about 23 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 6% 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. Arroyo Grande's figures add up its 12 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Arroyo Grande'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: 19,295. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Arroyo Grande, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/arroyo-grande
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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