Crime in Menlo Park, California
Major crime in Menlo Park is 30% below the U.S. rate per resident: 51% lower for persons crimes and 26% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 30.4% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 43% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Menlo Park 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 Menlo Park
The middle half of Menlo Park residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 34 and 81; the typical (median) resident's is 43. The citywide figure (70) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5059.0%
- 50–10019.2%
- 100–20012.8%
- 200–4008.9%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 30.4% 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.
Menlo Park against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
536 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Menlo Park; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Menlo Park has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Atherton (1 mi), is 24% below Menlo Park's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Menlo Park
What are the most common crimes in Menlo Park?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 157 a year), theft from vehicle (about 55 a year) and burglary (about 54 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 43% 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. Menlo Park's figures add up its 25 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Menlo Park's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 12.5% 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: 32,933. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Menlo Park, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/menlo-park
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Atherton1 mi53
- West Menlo Park2 mi33
- North Fair Oaks2 mi80
- East Palo Alto2 mi116
- Stanford2 mi77
- Palo Alto3 mi145
- Redwood City4 mi101
- Woodside5 mi45