Crime in Santa Ana, California
Major crime in Santa Ana is 14% below the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 16% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.5% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 1.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Santa Ana 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 Santa Ana
The middle half of Santa Ana residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 43 and 93; the typical (median) resident's is 58. The citywide figure (86) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5041.0%
- 50–10037.2%
- 100–20014.2%
- 200–4005.8%
- 400+1.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 6.5% 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.
Santa Ana against U.S. places with 250,000 to 500,000 residents
44 of the 53 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Santa Ana; the middle of the group is 142. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Santa Ana has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Tustin (4 mi), is 6% above Santa Ana's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Santa Ana
What are the most common crimes in Santa Ana?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 1,266 a year), other larceny (about 882 a year) and shoplifting (about 654 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 1.9 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. Santa Ana's figures add up its 157 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Santa Ana's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 65.8% 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: 317,920. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Santa Ana, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/santa-ana
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Tustin4 mi92
- Fountain Valley4 mi101
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- North Tustin5 mi44
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