Crime in Placentia, California
Major crime in Placentia is 29% below the U.S. rate per resident: 17% lower for persons crimes and 32% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 5.3% 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 47% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Placentia 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 Placentia
The middle half of Placentia residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 45 and 86; the typical (median) resident's is 61.
- 0–5042.3%
- 50–10038.7%
- 100–20015.8%
- 200–4003.2%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 5.3% 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.
Placentia against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
373 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Placentia; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Placentia has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Brea (3 mi), is 1.9 times Placentia's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Placentia
What are the most common crimes in Placentia?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 202 a year), theft from vehicle (about 162 a year) and aggravated assault (about 122 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 47% above 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. Placentia's figures add up its 30 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Placentia has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 63.7% 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: 58,471. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Placentia, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/placentia
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