Crime in Imperial, California
Major crime in Imperial is 81% below the U.S. rate per resident: 63% lower for persons crimes and 85% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.1% 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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Every crime type in Imperial is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Imperial 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 Imperial
The middle half of Imperial residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 6 and 17; the typical (median) resident's is 8. The citywide figure (19) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5089.4%
- 50–1003.4%
- 100–2007.2%
- 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.
Lowest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 12.1% 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.
Imperial against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
957 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Imperial; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Imperial 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, El Centro (4 mi), is 2.7 times Imperial's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Imperial
What are the most common crimes in Imperial?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 23 a year), shoplifting (about 18 a year) and other larceny (about 12 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 5% 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. Imperial's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Imperial has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% 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: 25,120. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Imperial, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/imperial
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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