Crime in Brawley, California
Major crime in Brawley is 36% below the U.S. rate per resident: 8% higher for persons crimes and 45% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.5% 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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Weapons violations stand out most, at 1.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Brawley 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 Brawley
The middle half of Brawley residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 45 and 86; the typical (median) resident's is 60.
- 0–5032.2%
- 50–10055.7%
- 100–20012.0%
- 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 in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 13.5% 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.
Brawley against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
578 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Brawley; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Brawley has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Imperial (10 mi), is 70% below Brawley's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Brawley
What are the most common crimes in Brawley?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 78 a year), other larceny (about 72 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 39 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 1.5 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. Brawley's figures add up its 18 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Brawley's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 35.7% 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: 28,431. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Brawley, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/brawley
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Imperial10 mi19
- Calipatria12 mi26
- El Centro13 mi52
- Holtville15 mi31
- Heber17 mi38
- Calexico21 mi59
- Salton City34 mi41
- Borrego Springs49 mi87