Crime in Chowchilla, California
Major crime in Chowchilla is 36% below the U.S. rate per resident: 31% higher for persons crimes and 51% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.3% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 2.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Chowchilla 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 Chowchilla
The middle half of Chowchilla residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 19 and 75; the typical (median) resident's is 52. The citywide figure (64) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5043.9%
- 50–10035.8%
- 100–20017.8%
- 200–4002.5%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 6.3% 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.
Chowchilla against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,224 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Chowchilla; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Chowchilla 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, Madera Acres (10 mi), is 18% below Chowchilla's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Chowchilla
What are the most common crimes in Chowchilla?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 71 a year), other larceny (about 65 a year) and burglary (about 28 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.4 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. Chowchilla's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Chowchilla has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 6.8% 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: 20,708. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Chowchilla, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/chowchilla
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Madera Acres10 mi52
- Planada13 mi102
- Madera14 mi86
- Merced19 mi192
- Bonadelle Ranchos22 mi56
- Firebaugh22 mi57
- Franklin22 mi74
- Dos Palos24 mi123