CrimeMetric

Crime in Fairfield, California

Major crime in Fairfield is 25% above the U.S. rate per resident: 1.8 times for persons crimes and 14% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.7% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
125
25% above the U.S. rate
about the California rate
down 7.7% in a year
Persons crimes
176
1.8 times the U.S. rate
31% above the California rate
up 3.6% in a year
Property crimes
114
14% above the U.S. rate
about the California rate
down 11.0% in a year
Social disorder
104
about the U.S. rate
about the California rate
down 3.0% in a year

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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Crime by type

Robbery stands out most, at 2.8 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Fairfield for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Persons crimes

Robbery279149
Murder1055

How crime varies across Fairfield

The middle half of Fairfield residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 52 and 172; the typical (median) resident's is 82. The citywide figure (125) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Fairfield, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Tap one to compare it. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5024.3%
  • 50–10033.7%
  • 100–20023.8%
  • 200–40015.6%
  • 400+2.6%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest at night

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm115
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am135
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm122
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am131
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.7% in a year; across California it fell 7.4%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.7%CA -7.4%-11.3%CA -14.1%
Persons crimes+3.6%CA -3.5%-4.2%CA -6.1%
Property crimes-11.0%CA -8.4%-13.7%CA -16.1%
Social disorder-3.0%CA -4.9%-6.5%CA -9.4%

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.

Similar-size places

Fairfield against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents

105 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Fairfield; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:

Lafayette, LA123,774258
Topeka, KS124,626221
Arvada, CO126,121134
Fairfield, CA124,860125
Ann Arbor, MI124,073120
Odessa, TX125,38477
Menifee, CA125,08963
Elgin, IL123,83057
Buckeye, AZ124,03849
Brandon, FL125,60638

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Fairfield has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Suisun City (2 mi), is 31% below Fairfield's rate.

Vallejo14 mi196
Crockett17 mi126
Fairfield125
Bay Point16 mi122
Vacaville8 mi86
Napa14 mi69
Benicia14 mi62

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Fairfield

What are the most common crimes in Fairfield?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 604 a year), theft from vehicle (about 536 a year) and aggravated assault (about 475 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 2.8 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. Fairfield's figures add up its 73 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Fairfield's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
  • 65.1% 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: 124,860. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Fairfield, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/fairfield

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100