Crime in Eureka, California
Major crime in Eureka is 47% above the U.S. rate per resident: 2.8 times for persons crimes and 19% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.9% 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 4.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Eureka 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 Eureka
The middle half of Eureka residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 60 and 164; the typical (median) resident's is 90. The citywide figure (147) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5015.5%
- 50–10043.5%
- 100–20022.7%
- 200–4009.4%
- 400+9.0%
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 fell 12.9% 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.
Eureka against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
138 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Eureka; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Eureka 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, Myrtletown (2 mi), is 40% below Eureka's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Eureka
What are the most common crimes in Eureka?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 140 a year), theft from vehicle (about 100 a year) and shoplifting (about 93 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 4.2 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. Eureka's figures add up its 26 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Eureka's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 80.0% 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: 25,709. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Eureka, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/eureka
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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