Crime in Golden Hills, California
Major crime in Golden Hills is 8% below the U.S. rate per resident: 31% lower for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 5.9% 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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Motor vehicle theft and weapons violations stand out most, at about 18% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Golden Hills 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 Golden Hills
The middle half of Golden Hills residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 46 and 142; the typical (median) resident's is 65. The citywide figure (92) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5033.0%
- 50–10023.3%
- 100–20043.7%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
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 rose 5.9% 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.
Golden Hills against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
783 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Golden Hills; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Golden Hills 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, Tehachapi (2 mi), is about Golden Hills's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Golden Hills
What are the most common crimes in Golden Hills?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 54 a year), theft from vehicle (about 28 a year) and shoplifting (about 22 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: 18% above 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. Golden Hills's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Golden Hills has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 45.9% 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: 10,182. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Golden Hills, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/golden-hills
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Tehachapi2 mi93
- Bear Valley Springs7 mi63
- Arvin19 mi122
- Mojave20 mi181
- Lamont25 mi117
- Rosamond26 mi100
- East Niles29 mi112
- Rexland Acres30 mi155