Crime in Prunedale, California
Major crime in Prunedale is 60% below the U.S. rate per resident: 26% lower for persons crimes and 68% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 16.5% 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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Every crime type in Prunedale is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Prunedale 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 Prunedale
The middle half of Prunedale residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 28 and 46; the typical (median) resident's is 32. The citywide figure (40) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5080.3%
- 50–10019.7%
- 100–2000.0%
- 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.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 16.5% 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.
Prunedale against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,735 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Prunedale; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Prunedale has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Castroville (5 mi), is 33% above Prunedale's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Prunedale
What are the most common crimes in Prunedale?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 45 a year), aggravated assault (about 40 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 23 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 19% 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. Prunedale's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Prunedale has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 36.1% 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: 21,294. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Prunedale, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/prunedale
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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