Crime in El Monte, California
Major crime in El Monte is 1.5 times the U.S. rate per resident: 33% higher for persons crimes and 1.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 4.9% 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 3.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in El Monte 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 El Monte
The middle half of El Monte residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 83 and 162; the typical (median) resident's is 118. The citywide figure (152) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10038.4%
- 100–20044.5%
- 200–40010.1%
- 400+6.9%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 4.9% 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 Monte against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
71 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than El Monte; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
El Monte has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, South El Monte (2 mi), is 16% above El Monte's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in El Monte
What are the most common crimes in El Monte?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 756 a year), shoplifting (about 497 a year) and other larceny (about 411 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 3.0 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 Monte's figures add up its 65 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- El Monte's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 84.5% 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: 104,844. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in El Monte, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/el-monte
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- South El Monte2 mi176
- North El Monte2 mi97
- Temple City3 mi79
- Mayflower Village3 mi116
- Rosemead3 mi142
- Baldwin Park3 mi95
- West Puente Valley3 mi92
- South Monrovia Island4 mi65