Crime in Grass Valley, California
Major crime in Grass Valley is 18% above the U.S. rate per resident: 50% higher for persons crimes and 11% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.2% 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 3.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Grass 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 Grass Valley
The middle half of Grass Valley residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 89 and 142; the typical (median) resident's is 101.
- 0–5017.5%
- 50–10018.0%
- 100–20053.5%
- 200–40011.1%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.2% 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.
Grass Valley against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
483 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Grass Valley; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Grass Valley has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Alta Sierra (7 mi), is 81% below Grass Valley's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Grass Valley
What are the most common crimes in Grass Valley?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 84 a year), other larceny (about 66 a year) and aggravated assault (about 48 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 3.9 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. Grass Valley's figures add up its 12 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Grass Valley's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 11.1% 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: 14,106. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Grass Valley, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/grass-valley
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Alta Sierra7 mi22
- Lake Wildwood8 mi22
- Lake of the Pines13 mi22
- North Auburn20 mi81
- Auburn23 mi49
- Auburn Lake Trails23 mi32
- Georgetown24 mi44
- Wheatland24 mi45