Crime in Castro Valley, California
Major crime in Castro Valley is 23% above the U.S. rate per resident: 27% higher for persons crimes and 22% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 1.0% 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 and robbery stand out most, at about 2.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Castro Valley 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 Castro Valley
The middle half of Castro Valley residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 55 and 163; the typical (median) resident's is 82. The citywide figure (123) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5014.6%
- 50–10047.4%
- 100–20021.5%
- 200–40013.6%
- 400+3.0%
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 rose 1.0% 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.
Castro Valley against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
158 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Castro Valley; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Castro Valley has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Fairview (2 mi), is 43% below Castro Valley's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Castro Valley
What are the most common crimes in Castro Valley?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 349 a year), other larceny (about 345 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 263 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: 2.5 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. Castro Valley's figures add up its 42 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Castro Valley has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 61.2% 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: 67,185. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Castro Valley, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/castro-valley
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Fairview2 mi70
- Ashland2 mi153
- Cherryland2 mi151
- San Lorenzo4 mi108
- Hayward4 mi187
- San Leandro4 mi182
- Union City8 mi123
- San Ramon9 mi49