Crime in Dana Point, California
Major crime in Dana Point is 34% below the U.S. rate per resident: 52% lower for persons crimes and 31% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are about flat 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 1.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Dana Point 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 Dana Point
The middle half of Dana Point residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 24 and 60; the typical (median) resident's is 36. The citywide figure (66) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5061.3%
- 50–10026.9%
- 100–2005.4%
- 200–4004.0%
- 400+2.4%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 0.5% 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.
Dana Point against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
564 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Dana Point; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Dana Point 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, San Juan Capistrano (3 mi), is 38% below Dana Point's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Dana Point
What are the most common crimes in Dana Point?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 96 a year), shoplifting (about 77 a year) and other larceny (about 68 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 1.7 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. Dana Point's figures add up its 26 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Dana Point has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 23.9% 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: 31,629. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Dana Point, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/dana-point
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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