Crime in Half Moon Bay, California
Major crime in Half Moon Bay is 31% below the U.S. rate per resident: 25% lower for persons crimes and 32% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.0% 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.
Check an address in Half Moon Bay
Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 2.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Half Moon Bay 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 Half Moon Bay
The middle half of Half Moon Bay residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 48 and 77; the typical (median) resident's is 68.
- 0–5036.7%
- 50–10058.6%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4004.7%
- 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 weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 11.0% 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.
Half Moon Bay against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,131 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Half Moon Bay; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Half Moon Bay 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, El Granada (3 mi), is 39% below Half Moon Bay's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Half Moon Bay
What are the most common crimes in Half Moon Bay?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 40 a year), shoplifting (about 16 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 16 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol 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. Half Moon Bay's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Half Moon Bay's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 79.2% 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: 10,312. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Half Moon Bay, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/half-moon-bay
Use these numbers in your product
Any U.S. address by API or MCP, free for 10,000 lookups a month.
Get a free API keyNearest cities we publish
Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- El Granada3 mi42
- Moss Beach5 mi57
- Hillsborough7 mi33
- Belmont8 mi64
- Burlingame8 mi88
- San Mateo9 mi78
- Millbrae9 mi69
- San Carlos9 mi72