Crime in Indian Wells, California
Major crime in Indian Wells is about the U.S. rate per resident: 63% lower for persons crimes and 18% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 10.5% 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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Burglary stands out most, at 1.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Indian Wells 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 Indian Wells
The middle half of Indian Wells residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 22 and 179; the typical (median) resident's is 71. The citywide figure (104) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5031.9%
- 50–10029.5%
- 100–20024.2%
- 200–40014.4%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 10.5% 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.
Indian Wells against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
365 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Indian Wells; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Indian Wells 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, Palm Desert (2 mi), is 6% above Indian Wells's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Indian Wells
What are the most common crimes in Indian Wells?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 21 a year), theft from vehicle (about 16 a year) and burglary (about 12 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 1.9 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. Indian Wells's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Indian Wells 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: 3,895. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Indian Wells, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/indian-wells
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