Crime in La Cañada Flintridge, California
Major crime in La Cañada Flintridge is 12% below the U.S. rate per resident: 73% lower for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.6% 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 3.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in La Cañada Flintridge 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 La Cañada Flintridge
The middle half of La Cañada Flintridge residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 42 and 84; the typical (median) resident's is 73. The citywide figure (88) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5025.0%
- 50–10062.1%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–40012.9%
- 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 8.6% 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.
La Cañada Flintridge against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
834 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than La Cañada Flintridge; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
La Cañada Flintridge has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, La Crescenta-Montrose (2 mi), is about La Cañada Flintridge's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in La Cañada Flintridge
What are the most common crimes in La Cañada Flintridge?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are burglary (about 107 a year), other larceny (about 65 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 50 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 3.4 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. La Cañada Flintridge's figures add up its 15 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- La Cañada Flintridge's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 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: 19,360. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in La Cañada Flintridge, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/la-ca-ada-flintridge
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- La Crescenta-Montrose2 mi85
- Altadena4 mi88
- Glendale4 mi115
- Pasadena6 mi169
- South Pasadena7 mi111
- Burbank7 mi155
- San Marino8 mi106
- East Pasadena9 mi275