Crime in Redwood City, California
Major crime in Redwood City is about the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and about the same for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.8% 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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Robbery stands out most, at 2.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Redwood City 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 Redwood City
The middle half of Redwood City residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 44 and 90; the typical (median) resident's is 70. The citywide figure (101) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- Persons crimes
- Property crimes
- Social disorder
- Other offenses
- Calls for service
- Each dot is a record; a circle is that many records at one address. Click any to list them
- Busiest spots, listed under Reported incidents
Census block groups shaded by their band of major-crime index per resident, the same bands as the bar below. Pale gray areas have fewer than 100 residents, so no index is published. Dots and circles are police reports in the chosen time frame (the records run from January 1, 2026 to October 23, 2026), not estimates. Pinch or double-click to zoom; point at or tap anything for details. Boundaries and streets: U.S. Census Bureau.
- 0–5031.5%
- 50–10044.7%
- 100–20012.3%
- 200–4005.7%
- 400+5.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
17% of reported crimes were within 200 meters of five spots
Where Redwood City Police Department recorded 3,597 incidents from January 1 to October 23, 2026. Over the whole period, the busiest was near Linden St & Hazel Ave, with 269 within 200 meters, mostly shoplifting.
These are individual police records, the dots on the map above, not the model's estimates. The map and the list start on the last 30 days of records; pick another time frame above the map. Open a spot to see its records.
Where every record goes
Spots are where reports cluster most, at least 500 m apart; counts are reports within 200 m. Points are approximate, usually to the block or address, and areas outside the city limits are policed by other agencies, so few of their incidents appear. The map shows every record that maps to one of the model's crime types: rape / sexual assault, robbery, burglary, shoplifting, theft from vehicle, other larceny, motor vehicle theft, simple assault, intimidation and vandalism. Aggravated assault, weapons, drugs and alcohol, disorderly conduct and trespass are shown too. Their local counts don't match the agency's FBI totals closely enough to place the neighborhood index, so their indexes come from the FBI totals alone. Other offenses are 856 filed reports outside those types, such as fraud, DUI, hit-and-run and warrants. Each event is counted once: when a call for service and a filed report record the same crime within 50 m and 3 days, only the report is kept. Of the 3,597 crime records over the full period, 2,675 are filed reports and 922 are calls for service. Source: Redwood City Police Department records published on CitizenRIMS, through October 23, 2026.
Highest on weekdays, day and night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 6.8% 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.
Redwood City against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
227 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Redwood City; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Redwood City has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, North Fair Oaks (2 mi), is 21% below Redwood City's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Redwood City
What are the most common crimes in Redwood City?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 505 a year), theft from vehicle (about 259 a year) and shoplifting (about 217 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 2.1 times the U.S. rate per resident.
Where were crimes reported in Redwood City recently?
In the last 30 days of records (September 24 to October 23, 2026), Redwood City Police Department recorded 203 crimes and other offenses we map. The busiest spot was near El Camino Real & Charter St, with 18 within 200 meters. The map lets you pick a longer time frame.
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. Redwood City's figures add up its 53 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Redwood City's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 38.9% 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: 83,022. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Redwood City, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/redwood-city
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