Crime in Corte Madera, California
Major crime in Corte Madera is 75% below the U.S. rate per resident: 73% lower for persons crimes and 75% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.8% 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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Every crime type in Corte Madera is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Corte Madera 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 Corte Madera
The middle half of Corte Madera residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 17 and 29; the typical (median) resident's is 25.
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- 50–1000.0%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 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 and on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 6.8% 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.
Corte Madera against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
2,015 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Corte Madera; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Corte Madera has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Larkspur (1 mi), is 33% above Corte Madera's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Corte Madera
What are the most common crimes in Corte Madera?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 12 a year), theft from vehicle (about 7 a year) and shoplifting (about 6 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 41% below 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. Corte Madera's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Corte Madera's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 0.0% 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: 9,196. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Corte Madera, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/corte-madera
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Larkspur1 mi34
- Mill Valley2 mi55
- Strawberry2 mi48
- Kentfield3 mi31
- Tamalpais-Homestead Valley3 mi30
- Tiburon3 mi54
- San Rafael4 mi123
- Sausalito5 mi73