Crime in Hercules, California
Major crime in Hercules is 66% below the U.S. rate per resident: 52% lower for persons crimes and 69% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.6% 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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Every crime type in Hercules is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Hercules 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 Hercules
The middle half of Hercules residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 18 and 37; the typical (median) resident's is 25. The citywide figure (34) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5095.6%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–2004.4%
- 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 on weekdays, day and night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 12.6% 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.
Hercules against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
882 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Hercules; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Hercules has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Pinole (1 mi), is 2.2 times Hercules's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Hercules
What are the most common crimes in Hercules?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 34 a year), aggravated assault (about 30 a year) and other larceny (about 28 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 8% below 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. Hercules's figures add up its 12 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Hercules has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 14.6% 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: 26,127. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Hercules, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/hercules
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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