Crime in El Cerrito (Riverside County), California
Major crime in El Cerrito is 3.2 times the U.S. rate per resident: 1.6 times for persons crimes and 3.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 16.8% 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 6.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in El Cerrito 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 El Cerrito
El Cerrito is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 193; the middle half of residents live where it is between 107 and 749.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–20052.5%
- 200–40019.4%
- 400+28.1%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 16.8% 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.
El Cerrito against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
25 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than El Cerrito; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
El Cerrito has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Home Gardens (3 mi), is 54% below El Cerrito's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in El Cerrito
What are the most common crimes in El Cerrito?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 110 a year), other larceny (about 106 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 52 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 6.0 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. El Cerrito's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- El Cerrito 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: 5,760. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in El Cerrito (Riverside County), California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/el-cerrito-riverside-county
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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