Crime in Imperial Beach, California
Major crime in Imperial Beach is 51% below the U.S. rate per resident: 19% higher for persons crimes and 66% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 8.3% 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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Aggravated assault and drugs and alcohol stand out most, at about 31% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Imperial Beach 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 Beach
The middle half of Imperial Beach residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 31 and 52; the typical (median) resident's is 45.
- 0–5061.8%
- 50–10032.5%
- 100–2005.7%
- 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 Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 8.3% 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 Beach against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
725 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Imperial Beach; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Imperial Beach has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Chula Vista (6 mi), is 1.7 times Imperial Beach's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Imperial Beach
What are the most common crimes in Imperial Beach?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 76 a year), motor vehicle theft (about 45 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 28 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 31% 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. Imperial Beach's figures add up its 19 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Imperial Beach's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 5.7% 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: 25,048. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Imperial Beach, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/imperial-beach
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Chula Vista6 mi84
- National City7 mi97
- Coronado8 mi97
- Bonita8 mi174
- La Presa11 mi40
- Lemon Grove12 mi83
- Spring Valley13 mi32
- La Mesa14 mi122