Crime in Durham, California
Major crime in Durham is 51% below the U.S. rate per resident: 22% lower for persons crimes and 57% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.5% 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 1.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Durham 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 Durham
The middle half of Durham residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 38 and 48; the typical (median) resident's is 44.
- 0–5078.4%
- 50–10016.8%
- 100–2004.7%
- 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 13.5% 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.
Durham against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,396 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Durham; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Durham has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Chico (7 mi), is 3.0 times Durham's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Durham
What are the most common crimes in Durham?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 16 a year), aggravated assault (about 10 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 1.5 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. Durham's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Durham's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 0.0% 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: 5,219. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Durham, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/durham
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Chico7 mi146
- Paradise13 mi78
- Thermalito14 mi67
- Oroville16 mi205
- Magalia16 mi65
- South Oroville17 mi73
- Oroville East19 mi54
- Palermo20 mi65