Crime in Sacramento, California
Major crime in Sacramento is 1.5 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.1 times for persons crimes and 37% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 14.9% 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 3.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Sacramento 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 Sacramento
The middle half of Sacramento residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 56 and 159; the typical (median) resident's is 90. The citywide figure (151) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5021.2%
- 50–10032.9%
- 100–20028.2%
- 200–40011.5%
- 400+6.2%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 14.9% 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.
Sacramento against U.S. places with 500,000 to 1 million residents
20 of the 25 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Sacramento; the middle of the group is 190. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Sacramento has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Fruitridge Pocket (2 mi), is 21% below Sacramento's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Sacramento
What are the most common crimes in Sacramento?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 3,986 a year), aggravated assault (about 2,543 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 1,989 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 3.3 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. Sacramento's figures add up its 368 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Sacramento's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 68.2% 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: 531,578. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Sacramento, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/sacramento
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Fruitridge Pocket2 mi119
- Lemon Hill3 mi143
- West Sacramento4 mi99
- Parkway5 mi161
- Arden-Arcade5 mi171
- La Riviera6 mi108
- Rosemont6 mi95
- Florin7 mi156