Crime in Empire, California
Major crime in Empire is 48% above the U.S. rate per resident: 2.2 times for persons crimes and 31% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 14.6% 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 and drugs and alcohol stand out most, at about 3.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Empire 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 Empire
Empire is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 39; the middle half of residents live where it is between 39 and 305.
- 0–5071.7%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4008.8%
- 400+19.5%
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 14.6% 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.
Empire against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
187 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Empire; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Empire 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, Hughson (3 mi), is 82% below Empire's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Empire
What are the most common crimes in Empire?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 22 a year), aggravated assault (about 20 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 14 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 3.1 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. Empire's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Empire has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 19.5% 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: 3,811. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Empire, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/empire
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Hughson3 mi26
- Ceres4 mi88
- Modesto5 mi107
- Riverbank6 mi82
- Keyes6 mi47
- Bret Harte6 mi50
- West Modesto7 mi46
- Waterford8 mi44