Crime in Porterville, California
Major crime in Porterville is 11% below the U.S. rate per resident: 5% higher for persons crimes and 15% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 10.5% 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 3.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Porterville 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 Porterville
The middle half of Porterville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 47 and 104; the typical (median) resident's is 71. The citywide figure (89) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5027.0%
- 50–10047.8%
- 100–20019.3%
- 200–4005.8%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
About the same at every time of week
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 10.5% 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.
Porterville against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
286 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Porterville; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Porterville 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, East Porterville (3 mi), is 29% above Porterville's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Porterville
What are the most common crimes in Porterville?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 251 a year), shoplifting (about 178 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 161 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 3.8 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. Porterville's figures add up its 38 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Porterville has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 96.1% 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: 66,600. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Porterville, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/porterville
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- East Porterville3 mi115
- Lindsay10 mi90
- Pixley16 mi100
- Exeter17 mi103
- Earlimart18 mi83
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