Crime in Clearlake, California
Major crime in Clearlake is 40% above the U.S. rate per resident: 2.3 times for persons crimes and 19% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.5% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 5.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Clearlake 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 Clearlake
The middle half of Clearlake residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 51 and 224; the typical (median) resident's is 141.
- 0–5010.9%
- 50–10033.8%
- 100–20028.1%
- 200–40027.2%
- 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 weekday daytimes and on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.5% 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.
Clearlake against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
342 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Clearlake; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Clearlake 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, Clearlake Riviera (5 mi), is 71% below Clearlake's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Clearlake
What are the most common crimes in Clearlake?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 93 a year), shoplifting (about 92 a year) and other larceny (about 72 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 5.9 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. Clearlake's figures add up its 12 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Clearlake's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 22.9% 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: 17,013. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Clearlake, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/clearlake
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Clearlake Riviera5 mi40
- Hidden Valley Lake11 mi33
- Lakeport16 mi170
- North Lakeport17 mi56
- Cloverdale24 mi60
- Calistoga26 mi62
- Healdsburg26 mi66
- Williams30 mi60