Crime in Boulder Creek, California
Major crime in Boulder Creek is 39% below the U.S. rate per resident: 41% lower for persons crimes and 38% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 5.3% 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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Simple assault stands out most, at 2.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Boulder Creek for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
Neighborhoods in Boulder Creek
Boulder Creek is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 68.
- 0–5024.2%
- 50–10075.8%
- 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 weekdays, day and night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 5.3% 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.
Boulder Creek against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
827 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Boulder Creek; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Boulder Creek 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, Ben Lomond (4 mi), is 30% below Boulder Creek's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Boulder Creek
What are the most common crimes in Boulder Creek?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 9 a year), other larceny (about 8 a year) and shoplifting (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 2.3 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. Boulder Creek's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Boulder Creek's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 54.2% 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: 3,458. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Boulder Creek, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/boulder-creek
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Ben Lomond4 mi43
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- Saratoga11 mi32
- Los Gatos12 mi71
- Santa Cruz12 mi172
- Live Oak13 mi108
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