Crime in Laguna Beach, California
Major crime in Laguna Beach is 33% below the U.S. rate per resident: 45% lower for persons crimes and 30% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.5% 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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Vandalism and drugs and alcohol stand out most, at about 39% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Laguna 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 Laguna Beach
The middle half of Laguna Beach residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 27 and 83; the typical (median) resident's is 37. The citywide figure (67) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5057.5%
- 50–10026.2%
- 100–20011.5%
- 200–4002.2%
- 400+2.5%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.5% 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.
Laguna Beach against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,163 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Laguna Beach; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Laguna Beach has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Aliso Viejo (4 mi), is 33% below Laguna Beach's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Laguna Beach
What are the most common crimes in Laguna Beach?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 104 a year), shoplifting (about 47 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 33 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 39% 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. Laguna Beach's figures add up its 22 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Laguna Beach 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: 22,175. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Laguna Beach, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/laguna-beach
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Aliso Viejo4 mi45
- Laguna Niguel4 mi30
- Laguna Hills5 mi64
- Laguna Woods5 mi37
- Dana Point6 mi66
- San Juan Capistrano6 mi41
- Ladera Ranch7 mi48
- Mission Viejo8 mi42