Crime in San Fernando, California
Major crime in San Fernando is 15% above the U.S. rate per resident: 11% higher for persons crimes and 16% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.7% 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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Motor vehicle theft stands out most, at 2.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in San Fernando 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 San Fernando
The middle half of San Fernando residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 53 and 150; the typical (median) resident's is 73. The citywide figure (115) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5016.6%
- 50–10034.1%
- 100–20034.8%
- 200–40014.5%
- 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 9.7% 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.
San Fernando against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
513 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than San Fernando; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
San Fernando has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Burbank (10 mi), is 35% above San Fernando's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in San Fernando
What are the most common crimes in San Fernando?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 110 a year), other larceny (about 109 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 79 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: 2.1 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. San Fernando's figures add up its 15 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- San Fernando has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 21.8% 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: 23,347. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in San Fernando, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/san-fernando
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Burbank10 mi155
- Santa Clarita10 mi67
- Stevenson Ranch11 mi79
- La Crescenta-Montrose12 mi85
- Glendale14 mi115
- Los Angeles14 mi161
- West Hollywood14 mi314
- La Cañada Flintridge15 mi88