Crime in La Quinta, California
Major crime in La Quinta is 13% below the U.S. rate per resident: 52% lower for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 19.1% 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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Theft from vehicle stands out most, at 42% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in La Quinta 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 Quinta
The middle half of La Quinta residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 36 and 76; the typical (median) resident's is 46. The citywide figure (87) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5052.7%
- 50–10028.3%
- 100–2005.7%
- 200–40012.2%
- 400+1.0%
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 19.1% 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.
La Quinta against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
406 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than La Quinta; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
La Quinta 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, Indian Wells (4 mi), is 19% above La Quinta's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in La Quinta
What are the most common crimes in La Quinta?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 157 a year), theft from vehicle (about 151 a year) and shoplifting (about 132 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 42% 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. La Quinta's figures add up its 33 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- La Quinta has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 11.3% 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: 40,202. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in La Quinta, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/la-quinta
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Indian Wells4 mi104
- Bermuda Dunes4 mi161
- Indio4 mi52
- Palm Desert6 mi109
- Coachella6 mi65
- Desert Palms7 mi134
- Rancho Mirage10 mi113
- Thousand Palms11 mi186