Crime in East Whittier, California
Major crime in East Whittier is 41% below the U.S. rate per resident: 40% lower for persons crimes and 41% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 10.4% 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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Motor vehicle theft stands out most, at 1.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in East Whittier 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
Neighborhoods in East Whittier
East Whittier is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 61; the middle half of residents live where it is between 42 and 63.
- 0–5031.6%
- 50–10068.4%
- 100–2000.0%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 10.4% 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 Whittier against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,163 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than East Whittier; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
East Whittier 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, La Mirada (2 mi), is 1.6 times East Whittier's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in East Whittier
What are the most common crimes in East Whittier?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 27 a year), motor vehicle theft (about 24 a year) and burglary (about 19 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft 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. East Whittier's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- East Whittier'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: 9,850. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in East Whittier, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/east-whittier
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- La Mirada2 mi92
- La Habra2 mi91
- South Whittier2 mi120
- La Habra Heights3 mi53
- Whittier3 mi122
- Fullerton5 mi114
- Buena Park5 mi132
- Hacienda Heights5 mi101