Crime in Escondido, California
Major crime in Escondido is about the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 5% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.7% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 2.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Escondido 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 Escondido
The middle half of Escondido residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 29 and 78; the typical (median) resident's is 45. The citywide figure (96) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5057.7%
- 50–10019.1%
- 100–20013.4%
- 200–4006.8%
- 400+2.9%
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 fell 6.7% 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.
Escondido against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
162 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Escondido; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Escondido 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, San Marcos (6 mi), is 51% below Escondido's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Escondido
What are the most common crimes in Escondido?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 632 a year), other larceny (about 564 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 458 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.6 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. Escondido's figures add up its 89 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Escondido's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 47.0% 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: 149,445. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Escondido, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/escondido
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- San Marcos6 mi47
- Hidden Meadows7 mi22
- Lake San Marcos8 mi29
- Valley Center8 mi32
- Rancho Santa Fe10 mi39
- Poway11 mi37
- Vista11 mi67
- Carlsbad12 mi68