CrimeMetric

Crime in Cudahy, California

Major crime in Cudahy is about the U.S. rate per resident: 40% higher for persons crimes and 11% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 10.4% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
98
about the U.S. rate
19% below the California rate
down 10.4% in a year
Persons crimes
140
40% above the U.S. rate
about the California rate
down 6.1% in a year
Property crimes
89
11% below the U.S. rate
24% below the California rate
down 11.8% in a year
Social disorder
98
about the U.S. rate
about the California rate
down 6.8% in a year

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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Crime by type

Robbery and motor vehicle theft stand out most, at about 2.4 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Cudahy for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Cudahy

The middle half of Cudahy residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 55 and 139; the typical (median) resident's is 81. The citywide figure (98) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Cudahy, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5014.7%
  • 50–10043.1%
  • 100–20042.2%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest on weeknights

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm83
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am116
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm95
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am106
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 10.4% in a year; across California it fell 7.4%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-10.4%CA -7.4%-18.1%CA -14.1%
Persons crimes-6.1%CA -3.5%-12.3%CA -6.1%
Property crimes-11.8%CA -8.4%-20.1%CA -16.1%
Social disorder-6.8%CA -4.9%-15.3%CA -9.4%

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.

Similar-size places

Cudahy against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

700 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Cudahy; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Cudahy, CA21,23998
La Porte, IN21,21473
Sherwood, OR21,24567

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Cudahy has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Bell (1 mi), is 28% below Cudahy's rate.

South Gate2 mi204
Lynwood3 mi158
Downey3 mi145
Maywood2 mi100
Cudahy98
Bell1 mi71

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Cudahy

What are the most common crimes in Cudahy?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are motor vehicle theft (about 82 a year), aggravated assault (about 60 a year) and burglary (about 58 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery 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. Cudahy's figures add up its 12 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Cudahy's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
  • 31.9% 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: 21,239. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Cudahy, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/cudahy

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100