Crime in Rancho Palos Verdes, California
Major crime in Rancho Palos Verdes is 40% below the U.S. rate per resident: 61% lower for persons crimes and 36% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.6% 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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Burglary stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Rancho Palos Verdes 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 Rancho Palos Verdes
The middle half of Rancho Palos Verdes residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 30 and 71; the typical (median) resident's is 38. The citywide figure (60) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5061.9%
- 50–10022.0%
- 100–20016.1%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.6% 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.
Rancho Palos Verdes against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
626 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Rancho Palos Verdes; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Rancho Palos Verdes 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, Rolling Hills Estates (1 mi), is about Rancho Palos Verdes's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Rancho Palos Verdes
What are the most common crimes in Rancho Palos Verdes?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are burglary (about 107 a year), other larceny (about 79 a year) and shoplifting (about 74 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 1.7 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. Rancho Palos Verdes's figures add up its 23 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Rancho Palos Verdes's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 16.7% 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: 39,395. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Rancho Palos Verdes, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/rancho-palos-verdes
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Rolling Hills Estates1 mi62
- Palos Verdes Estates2 mi48
- Lomita3 mi121
- Torrance5 mi156
- West Carson6 mi143
- Redondo Beach7 mi126
- Hermosa Beach7 mi160
- Carson8 mi166