CrimeMetric

Crime in Piedmont, California

Major crime in Piedmont is 19% above the U.S. rate per resident: 66% lower for persons crimes and 38% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 10.8% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
119
19% above the U.S. rate
about the California rate
down 10.8% in a year
Persons crimes
34
66% below the U.S. rate
74% below the California rate
down 8.4% in a year
Property crimes
138
38% above the U.S. rate
18% above the California rate
down 10.9% in a year
Social disorder
58
42% below the U.S. rate
43% below the California rate
down 7.4% 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

Burglary stands out most, at 4.1 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Piedmont 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 Piedmont

The middle half of Piedmont residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 79 and 141; the typical (median) resident's is 121.

Map of Piedmont, 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.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–10043.5%
  • 100–20048.6%
  • 200–4007.8%
  • 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 6pm109
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am146
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm88
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am121
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 10.8% in a year; across California it fell 7.4%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-10.8%CA -7.4%-24.3%CA -14.1%
Persons crimes-8.4%CA -3.5%-16.2%CA -6.1%
Property crimes-10.9%CA -8.4%-24.7%CA -16.1%
Social disorder-7.4%CA -4.9%-16.1%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

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

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

Piedmont, CA10,653119
Calimesa, CA10,648110
Vernon, TX10,64689
Bel Aire, KS10,65732

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

Nearby places

Piedmont has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Oakland (2 mi), is 3.0 times Piedmont's rate.

Emeryville3 mi574
Oakland2 mi361
Berkeley4 mi277
Alameda4 mi240
El Cerrito8 mi173
Albany6 mi140
Piedmont119
Orinda5 mi51
Moraga6 mi26

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

Questions about crime in Piedmont

What are the most common crimes in Piedmont?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 84 a year), burglary (about 71 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 30 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 4.1 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. Piedmont's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Piedmont's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
  • 0.0% 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: 10,653. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100