Crime in Pasadena, California
Major crime in Pasadena is 1.7 times the U.S. rate per resident: 30% higher for persons crimes and 1.8 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 1.0% 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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Burglary stands out most, at 2.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Pasadena 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 Pasadena
The middle half of Pasadena residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 81 and 184; the typical (median) resident's is 108. The citywide figure (169) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10043.3%
- 100–20033.2%
- 200–40013.9%
- 400+9.6%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 1.0% 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.
Pasadena against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
57 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Pasadena; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Pasadena has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Altadena (2 mi), is 48% below Pasadena's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Pasadena
What are the most common crimes in Pasadena?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 1,029 a year), shoplifting (about 818 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 793 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 2.5 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. Pasadena's figures add up its 104 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Pasadena has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 74.3% 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: 136,586. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Pasadena, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/pasadena
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Altadena2 mi88
- San Marino3 mi106
- South Pasadena3 mi111
- East Pasadena3 mi275
- East San Gabriel4 mi69
- San Gabriel5 mi102
- Alhambra5 mi118
- Arcadia5 mi141