Crime in Delano, California
Major crime in Delano is 40% below the U.S. rate per resident: 20% higher for persons crimes and 53% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 2.3% 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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Weapons violations stand out most, at 1.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Delano 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 Delano
The middle half of Delano residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 38 and 68; the typical (median) resident's is 59.
- 0–5044.2%
- 50–10050.5%
- 100–2002.9%
- 200–4002.3%
- 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 Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 2.3% 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.
Delano against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
417 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Delano; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Delano has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, McFarland (7 mi), is 11% below Delano's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Delano
What are the most common crimes in Delano?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 152 a year), other larceny (about 103 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 88 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 1.6 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. Delano's figures add up its 29 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Delano has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 62.5% 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: 52,936. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Delano, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/delano
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- McFarland7 mi54
- Earlimart8 mi83
- Wasco14 mi72
- Pixley15 mi100
- Shafter19 mi67
- Porterville24 mi89
- East Porterville25 mi115
- Oildale27 mi161