Crime in Moss Beach, California
Major crime in Moss Beach is 43% below the U.S. rate per resident: 33% lower for persons crimes and 45% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.9% 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 2.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Moss 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
Neighborhoods in Moss Beach
Moss Beach is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 62; the middle half of residents live where it is between 45 and 70.
- 0–5044.4%
- 50–10055.6%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 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 Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 11.9% 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.
Moss Beach against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
898 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Moss Beach; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Moss Beach 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, El Granada (2 mi), is 26% below Moss Beach's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Moss Beach
What are the most common crimes in Moss Beach?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 10 a year), theft from vehicle (about 5 a year) and aggravated assault (about 4 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.1 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. Moss Beach's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Moss Beach's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 74.5% 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: 2,940. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Moss Beach, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/moss-beach
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- El Granada2 mi42
- Half Moon Bay5 mi69
- Pacifica7 mi54
- Millbrae7 mi69
- Hillsborough8 mi33
- San Bruno8 mi77
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- South San Francisco10 mi81