Crime in Newport Beach, California
Major crime in Newport Beach is 13% below the U.S. rate per resident: 38% lower for persons crimes and 8% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 19.1% 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 2.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Newport 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
How crime varies across Newport Beach
The middle half of Newport Beach residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 39 and 89; the typical (median) resident's is 58. The citywide figure (87) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5043.3%
- 50–10033.6%
- 100–20017.2%
- 200–4004.1%
- 400+1.8%
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 19.1% 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.
Newport Beach against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
296 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Newport Beach; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Newport Beach 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, Costa Mesa (3 mi), is 46% above Newport Beach's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Newport Beach
What are the most common crimes in Newport Beach?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 572 a year), theft from vehicle (about 197 a year) and burglary (about 164 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.0 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. Newport Beach's figures add up its 72 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Newport Beach has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 14.5% 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: 82,232. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Newport Beach, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/newport-beach
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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