Crime in Carson, California
Major crime in Carson is 1.7 times the U.S. rate per resident: 32% higher for persons crimes and 1.7 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 10.0% 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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Motor vehicle theft stands out most, at 3.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Carson 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 Carson
The middle half of Carson residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 68 and 160; the typical (median) resident's is 91. The citywide figure (166) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–507.7%
- 50–10051.9%
- 100–20021.9%
- 200–40016.3%
- 400+2.2%
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 10.0% 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.
Carson against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
68 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Carson; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Carson has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, West Carson (2 mi), is 14% below Carson's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Carson
What are the most common crimes in Carson?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are motor vehicle theft (about 491 a year), theft from vehicle (about 481 a year) and other larceny (about 457 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: 3.4 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. Carson's figures add up its 59 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Carson's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 40.3% 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: 89,993. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Carson, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/carson
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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