Crime in Morgan Hill, California
Major crime in Morgan Hill is 10% below the U.S. rate per resident: 23% lower for persons crimes and 7% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.5% 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.
Check an address in Morgan Hill
Shoplifting stands out most, at 19% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Morgan Hill 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 Morgan Hill
The middle half of Morgan Hill residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 37 and 123; the typical (median) resident's is 81.
- 0–5037.4%
- 50–10022.8%
- 100–20031.8%
- 200–4007.9%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 9.5% 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.
Morgan Hill against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
384 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Morgan Hill; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Morgan Hill 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, San Martin (4 mi), is 35% above Morgan Hill's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Morgan Hill
What are the most common crimes in Morgan Hill?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 190 a year), shoplifting (about 184 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 115 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 19% 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. Morgan Hill's figures add up its 21 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Morgan Hill's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 71.7% 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: 48,678. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Morgan Hill, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/morgan-hill
Use these numbers in your product
Any U.S. address by API or MCP, free for 10,000 lookups a month.
Get a free API keyNearest cities we publish
Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- San Martin4 mi121
- Gilroy9 mi86
- Interlaken14 mi46
- Aptos16 mi63
- Watsonville16 mi90
- San Jose18 mi161
- Rio del Mar18 mi38
- Cambrian Park18 mi117