Crime in East Palo Alto, California
Major crime in East Palo Alto is 16% above the U.S. rate per resident: 1.8 times for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.5% 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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Robbery stands out most, at 3.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in East Palo Alto 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 East Palo Alto
The middle half of East Palo Alto residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 73 and 95; the typical (median) resident's is 93. The citywide figure (116) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10075.9%
- 100–20019.5%
- 200–4003.8%
- 400+0.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.5% 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.
East Palo Alto against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
237 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than East Palo Alto; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
East Palo Alto 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, Menlo Park (2 mi), is 40% below East Palo Alto's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in East Palo Alto
What are the most common crimes in East Palo Alto?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 138 a year), theft from vehicle (about 103 a year) and aggravated assault (about 102 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 3.8 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. East Palo Alto's figures add up its 17 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- East Palo Alto has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 100.0% 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: 29,248. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in East Palo Alto, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/east-palo-alto
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Menlo Park2 mi70
- Palo Alto2 mi145
- Stanford3 mi77
- Atherton3 mi53
- North Fair Oaks4 mi80
- West Menlo Park4 mi33
- Redwood City5 mi101
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