Crime in Mission Viejo, California
Major crime in Mission Viejo is 59% below the U.S. rate per resident: 67% lower for persons crimes and 57% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 25.4% 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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Every crime type in Mission Viejo is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Mission Viejo 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 Mission Viejo
The middle half of Mission Viejo residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 16 and 41; the typical (median) resident's is 22. The citywide figure (42) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5079.9%
- 50–10012.6%
- 100–2005.2%
- 200–4000.5%
- 400+1.7%
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 25.4% 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.
Mission Viejo against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
506 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Mission Viejo; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Mission Viejo 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, Las Flores (3 mi), is about Mission Viejo's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Mission Viejo
What are the most common crimes in Mission Viejo?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 208 a year), theft from vehicle (about 151 a year) and other larceny (about 80 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 28% below 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. Mission Viejo's figures add up its 60 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Mission Viejo's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 12.7% 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: 90,407. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Mission Viejo, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/mission-viejo
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Las Flores3 mi41
- Laguna Hills3 mi64
- Lake Forest3 mi45
- Rancho Santa Margarita4 mi27
- Laguna Woods4 mi37
- Coto de Caza4 mi30
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