Crime in Madera, California
Major crime in Madera is 15% below the U.S. rate per resident: 37% higher for persons crimes and 26% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 1.5% 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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Weapons violations stand out most, at 3.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Madera 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 Madera
The middle half of Madera residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 37 and 110; the typical (median) resident's is 55. The citywide figure (86) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5041.7%
- 50–10031.0%
- 100–20019.6%
- 200–4006.7%
- 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 weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 1.5% 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.
Madera against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
303 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Madera; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Madera 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, Madera Acres (4 mi), is 39% below Madera's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Madera
What are the most common crimes in Madera?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 232 a year), other larceny (about 218 a year) and shoplifting (about 165 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 3.0 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. Madera's figures add up its 36 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Madera's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 73.8% 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: 71,237. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Madera, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/madera
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Madera Acres4 mi52
- Bonadelle Ranchos10 mi56
- Chowchilla14 mi64
- Kerman16 mi102
- Old Fig Garden18 mi165
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- Mayfair21 mi118
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