CrimeMetric

Crime in Sanger, California

Major crime in Sanger is 15% below the U.S. rate per resident: 49% higher for persons crimes and 29% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 5.6% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
85
15% below the U.S. rate
29% below the California rate
down 5.6% in a year
Persons crimes
149
49% above the U.S. rate
11% above the California rate
down 3.1% in a year
Property crimes
71
29% below the U.S. rate
39% below the California rate
down 6.7% in a year
Social disorder
76
25% below the U.S. rate
26% below the California rate
down 5.5% in a year

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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Crime by type

Aggravated assault stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Sanger for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Sanger

The middle half of Sanger residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 38 and 119; the typical (median) resident's is 67. The citywide figure (85) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Sanger, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Tap one to compare it. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5042.5%
  • 50–10012.9%
  • 100–20040.8%
  • 200–4003.8%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weeknights

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm76
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am97
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm84
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am88
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 5.6% in a year; across California it fell 7.4%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-5.6%CA -7.4%-10.6%CA -14.1%
Persons crimes-3.1%CA -3.5%-0.8%CA -6.1%
Property crimes-6.7%CA -8.4%-15.1%CA -16.1%
Social disorder-5.5%CA -4.9%-9.0%CA -9.4%

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.

Similar-size places

Sanger against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents

430 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Sanger; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:

Ottumwa, IA26,578116
Fairland, MD26,605106
Sanger, CA26,61985
Galt, CA26,57579
Saginaw, TX26,61660
Denison, TX26,63653
Pelham, AL26,65852
Eastmont, WA26,58933

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Sanger 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, Parlier (7 mi), is about Sanger's rate.

Fresno14 mi188
Mayfair12 mi118
Selma10 mi101
Sanger85
Clovis10 mi85
Fowler8 mi83
Parlier7 mi82
Reedley10 mi78
Kingsburg13 mi59

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Sanger

What are the most common crimes in Sanger?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 106 a year), other larceny (about 82 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 70 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault 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. Sanger's figures add up its 18 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Sanger has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 3.8% 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: 26,619. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Sanger, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/sanger

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100