Crime in Elk Grove, California
Major crime in Elk Grove is 17% below the U.S. rate per resident: 38% lower for persons crimes and 12% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are about flat 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 22% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Elk Grove 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 Elk Grove
The middle half of Elk Grove residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 32 and 99; the typical (median) resident's is 49. The citywide figure (83) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5051.2%
- 50–10024.8%
- 100–20017.5%
- 200–4005.2%
- 400+1.3%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 0.4% 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.
Elk Grove against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
192 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Elk Grove; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Elk Grove has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Florin (5 mi), is 1.9 times Elk Grove's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Elk Grove
What are the most common crimes in Elk Grove?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 809 a year), shoplifting (about 668 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 530 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 22% above 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. Elk Grove's figures add up its 99 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Elk Grove's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 32.0% 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: 187,718. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Elk Grove, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/elk-grove
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Florin5 mi156
- Vineyard5 mi61
- Parkway6 mi161
- Lemon Hill8 mi143
- Fruitridge Pocket9 mi119
- Rosemont10 mi95
- Wilton11 mi74
- Sacramento11 mi151