Crime in Desert Palms, California
Major crime in Desert Palms is 34% above the U.S. rate per resident: 37% lower for persons crimes and 49% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 43.6% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 2.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Desert Palms 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 Palms
The middle half of Desert Palms residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 57 and 92; the typical (median) resident's is 60. The citywide figure (134) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10079.8%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+20.2%
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 rose 43.6% 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 Palms against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
322 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Desert Palms; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Desert Palms has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Bermuda Dunes (2 mi), is 21% above Desert Palms's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Desert Palms
What are the most common crimes in Desert Palms?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 55 a year), theft from vehicle (about 37 a year) and other larceny (about 30 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.5 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 Palms's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Desert Palms has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 20.2% 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: 6,861. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Desert Palms, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/desert-palms
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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