CrimeMetric

Crime in Phelan, California

Major crime in Phelan is 47% below the U.S. rate per resident: 19% lower for persons crimes and 53% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.4% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
53
47% below the U.S. rate
56% below the California rate
down 9.4% in a year
Persons crimes
81
19% below the U.S. rate
39% below the California rate
down 4.5% in a year
Property crimes
47
53% below the U.S. rate
60% below the California rate
down 11.1% in a year
Social disorder
60
41% below the U.S. rate
41% below the California rate
down 6.1% in a year

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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Crime by type

Every crime type in Phelan is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Phelan for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Phelan

The middle half of Phelan residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 35 and 52; the typical (median) resident's is 40. The citywide figure (53) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Phelan, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5060.9%
  • 50–10026.2%
  • 100–20012.9%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest on weeknights

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm48
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am60
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm54
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am53
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 9.4% in a year; across California it fell 7.4%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-9.4%CA -7.4%-10.8%CA -14.1%
Persons crimes-4.5%CA -3.5%-1.0%CA -6.1%
Property crimes-11.1%CA -8.4%-14.6%CA -16.1%
Social disorder-6.1%CA -4.9%-6.8%CA -9.4%

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.

Similar-size places

Phelan against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,412 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Phelan; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

El Dorado, AR17,065244
Oswego, NY17,050140
Wayne, MI17,070103
Havelock, NC17,02671
Tifton, GA17,08963
Phelan, CA17,05353
Vineyard, UT17,08321

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Phelan has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Piñon Hills (5 mi), is 16% above Phelan's rate.

Victorville11 mi109
Hesperia13 mi84
Adelanto9 mi72
Oak Hills8 mi71
Phelan53

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Phelan

What are the most common crimes in Phelan?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 34 a year), motor vehicle theft (about 26 a year) and other larceny (about 24 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: 5% 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. Phelan's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Phelan has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 12.9% 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: 17,053. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Phelan, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/phelan

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100