Crime in Hollister, California
Major crime in Hollister is 51% below the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 63% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 5.1% 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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Weapons violations stand out most, at 48% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Hollister 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 Hollister
The middle half of Hollister residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 23 and 57; the typical (median) resident's is 30. The citywide figure (49) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5071.3%
- 50–10026.1%
- 100–2002.1%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.5%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 5.1% 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.
Hollister against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
731 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Hollister; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Hollister has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Gilroy (15 mi), is 1.8 times Hollister's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Hollister
What are the most common crimes in Hollister?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 121 a year), shoplifting (about 80 a year) and other larceny (about 63 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 48% 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. Hollister's figures add up its 27 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Hollister's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 14.8% 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: 46,949. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Hollister, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/hollister
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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