Crime in Garden Grove, California
Major crime in Garden Grove is 13% below the U.S. rate per resident: 7% lower for persons crimes and 14% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.0% 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 2.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Garden Grove 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 Garden Grove
The middle half of Garden Grove residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 51 and 106; the typical (median) resident's is 75.
- 0–5024.2%
- 50–10042.9%
- 100–20028.8%
- 200–4004.1%
- 400+0.0%
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 7.0% 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.
Garden Grove against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
180 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Garden Grove; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Garden Grove has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Stanton (3 mi), is 10% above Garden Grove's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Garden Grove
What are the most common crimes in Garden Grove?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 787 a year), other larceny (about 447 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 305 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 2.1 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. Garden Grove's figures add up its 87 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Garden Grove's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 56.4% 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: 167,727. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Garden Grove, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/garden-grove
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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