Crime in Atherton, California
Major crime in Atherton is 47% below the U.S. rate per resident: 73% lower for persons crimes and 41% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.7% 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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Burglary stands out most, at 41% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Atherton 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 Atherton
The middle half of Atherton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 39 and 62; the typical (median) resident's is 47.
- 0–5050.3%
- 50–10049.7%
- 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.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.7% 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.
Atherton against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,286 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Atherton; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Atherton has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, North Fair Oaks (1 mi), is 1.5 times Atherton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Atherton
What are the most common crimes in Atherton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 32 a year), burglary (about 16 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 6 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 41% 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. Atherton's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Atherton'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: 7,051. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Atherton, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/atherton
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- North Fair Oaks1 mi80
- Menlo Park1 mi70
- West Menlo Park2 mi33
- Redwood City3 mi101
- Stanford3 mi77
- East Palo Alto3 mi116
- Woodside4 mi45
- Palo Alto4 mi145