Crime in Big Bear Lake, California
Major crime in Big Bear Lake is 36% above the U.S. rate per resident: 2.6 times for persons crimes and 8% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.2% 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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Aggravated assault stands out most, at 3.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Big Bear Lake 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 Big Bear Lake
The middle half of Big Bear Lake residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 108 and 157; the typical (median) resident's is 140.
- 0–5010.4%
- 50–1008.9%
- 100–20077.2%
- 200–4003.5%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.2% 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.
Big Bear Lake against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
221 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Big Bear Lake; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Big Bear Lake 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, Big Bear City (4 mi), is 13% below Big Bear Lake's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Big Bear Lake
What are the most common crimes in Big Bear Lake?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 34 a year), other larceny (about 24 a year) and burglary (about 18 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 3.0 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. Big Bear Lake's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Big Bear Lake has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 32.6% 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: 4,904. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Big Bear Lake, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/big-bear-lake
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