Crime in Salton City, California
Major crime in Salton City is 59% below the U.S. rate per resident: 21% higher for persons crimes and 77% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 10.1% 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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Aggravated assault and drugs and alcohol stand out most, at about 1.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Salton City for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
Neighborhoods in Salton City
Salton City is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 17; the middle half of residents live where it is between 17 and 81.
- 0–5066.8%
- 50–10026.9%
- 100–2006.3%
- 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 in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 10.1% 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.
Salton City against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,607 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Salton City; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Salton City 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, Oasis (16 mi), is 4.6 times Salton City's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Salton City
What are the most common crimes in Salton City?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 22 a year), other larceny (about 7 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 6 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 1.5 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. Salton City's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Salton City's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 0.0% 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: 6,281. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Salton City, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/salton-city
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Oasis16 mi188
- Mecca18 mi129
- Borrego Springs23 mi87
- Coachella27 mi65
- Calipatria29 mi26
- La Quinta31 mi87
- Indio32 mi52
- Brawley34 mi64