Crime in Irvine, California
Major crime in Irvine is 35% below the U.S. rate per resident: 72% lower for persons crimes and 27% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 22.8% 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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No crime type in Irvine is more than 10% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Irvine 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 Irvine
The middle half of Irvine residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 20 and 47; the typical (median) resident's is 29. The citywide figure (65) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5075.9%
- 50–10012.0%
- 100–2005.1%
- 200–4004.9%
- 400+2.1%
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 fell 22.8% 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.
Irvine against U.S. places with 250,000 to 500,000 residents
51 of the 53 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Irvine; the middle of the group is 142. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Irvine has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Tustin (4 mi), is 41% above Irvine's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Irvine
What are the most common crimes in Irvine?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 1,744 a year), theft from vehicle (about 556 a year) and shoplifting (about 518 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 8% 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. Irvine's figures add up its 198 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Irvine's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 15.7% 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: 323,645. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Irvine, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/irvine
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Tustin4 mi92
- North Tustin5 mi44
- Laguna Woods6 mi37
- Lake Forest6 mi45
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- Newport Beach7 mi87
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