Crime in Desert Hot Springs, California
Major crime in Desert Hot Springs is 19% below the U.S. rate per resident: 1.5 times for persons crimes and 35% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.3% 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 2.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Desert Hot Springs 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 Desert Hot Springs
The middle half of Desert Hot Springs residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 58 and 100; the typical (median) resident's is 73.
- 0–5017.8%
- 50–10059.4%
- 100–20022.7%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.3% 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.
Desert Hot Springs against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
456 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Desert Hot Springs; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Desert Hot Springs 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, Garnet (2 mi), is 25% above Desert Hot Springs's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Desert Hot Springs
What are the most common crimes in Desert Hot Springs?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 121 a year), other larceny (about 80 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 77 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations 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. Desert Hot Springs's figures add up its 16 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Desert Hot Springs has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 97.1% 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: 33,499. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Desert Hot Springs, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/desert-hot-springs
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Garnet2 mi101
- Desert Edge4 mi195
- Morongo Valley8 mi97
- Sky Valley8 mi157
- Palm Springs9 mi195
- Cathedral City10 mi73
- Yucca Valley12 mi85
- Thousand Palms12 mi186