Crime in Canyon Lake, California
Major crime in Canyon Lake is 26% below the U.S. rate per resident: 32% lower for persons crimes and 25% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 40.3% 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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Theft from vehicle stands out most, at 1.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Canyon 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 Canyon Lake
The middle half of Canyon Lake residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 67 and 78; the typical (median) resident's is 76.
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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 rose 40.3% 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.
Canyon Lake against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
885 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Canyon Lake; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Canyon Lake has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Menifee (4 mi), is 15% below Canyon Lake's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Canyon Lake
What are the most common crimes in Canyon Lake?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 37 a year), other larceny (about 31 a year) and aggravated assault (about 17 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle 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. Canyon Lake's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Canyon Lake has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 21.1% 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: 9,024. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Canyon Lake, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/canyon-lake
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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