Crime in Murrieta, California
Major crime in Murrieta is 54% below the U.S. rate per resident: 39% lower for persons crimes and 58% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 15.8% 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 Murrieta is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Murrieta 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 Murrieta
The middle half of Murrieta residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 19 and 51; the typical (median) resident's is 34. The citywide figure (46) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5072.4%
- 50–10016.4%
- 100–20010.1%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+1.1%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 15.8% 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.
Murrieta against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
251 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Murrieta; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Murrieta has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, French Valley (5 mi), is 22% above Murrieta's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Murrieta
What are the most common crimes in Murrieta?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 232 a year), shoplifting (about 193 a year) and aggravated assault (about 171 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 25% 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. Murrieta's figures add up its 63 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Murrieta's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 33.1% 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: 120,226. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Murrieta, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/murrieta
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- French Valley5 mi56
- Wildomar5 mi54
- Temecula7 mi66
- Canyon Lake8 mi74
- Menifee8 mi63
- Lakeland Village10 mi97
- Lake Elsinore11 mi74
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