Crime in Fountain Valley, California
Major crime in Fountain Valley is about the U.S. rate per resident: 44% lower for persons crimes and 10% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 4.3% 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 5.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Fountain Valley 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 Fountain Valley
The middle half of Fountain Valley residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 56 and 116; the typical (median) resident's is 84. The citywide figure (101) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5013.9%
- 50–10052.4%
- 100–20030.8%
- 200–4000.0%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 4.3% 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.
Fountain Valley against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
230 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Fountain Valley; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Fountain Valley has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Huntington Beach (3 mi), is 12% below Fountain Valley's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Fountain Valley
What are the most common crimes in Fountain Valley?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 269 a year), theft from vehicle (about 212 a year) and shoplifting (about 150 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 5.5 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. Fountain Valley's figures add up its 33 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Fountain Valley has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 58.1% 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: 51,992. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Fountain Valley, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/fountain-valley
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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