Crime in Palm Springs, California
Major crime in Palm Springs is 2.0 times the U.S. rate per resident: 1.6 times for persons crimes and 2.0 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 3.4% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 6.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Palm Springs 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 Palm Springs
The middle half of Palm Springs residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 76 and 224; the typical (median) resident's is 132. The citywide figure (195) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–501.7%
- 50–10034.0%
- 100–20035.3%
- 200–40024.3%
- 400+4.8%
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 3.4% 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.
Palm Springs against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
55 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Palm Springs; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Palm Springs has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Cathedral City (3 mi), is 63% below Palm Springs's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Palm Springs
What are the most common crimes in Palm Springs?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 521 a year), shoplifting (about 259 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 246 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 6.5 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. Palm Springs's figures add up its 48 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Palm Springs's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 76.7% 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: 45,876. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Palm Springs, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/palm-springs
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Cathedral City3 mi73
- Rancho Mirage7 mi113
- Garnet8 mi101
- Thousand Palms8 mi186
- Desert Edge9 mi195
- Desert Hot Springs9 mi81
- Sky Valley11 mi157
- Palm Desert11 mi109