Crime in Signal Hill, California
Major crime in Signal Hill is 3.2 times the U.S. rate per resident: 1.7 times for persons crimes and 3.5 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.1% 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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Theft from vehicle and motor vehicle theft stand out most, at about 4.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Signal Hill 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 Signal Hill
The middle half of Signal Hill residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 127 and 380; the typical (median) resident's is 224. The citywide figure (317) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10019.7%
- 100–20017.3%
- 200–40044.6%
- 400+18.3%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 9.1% 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.
Signal Hill against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
14 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Signal Hill; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Signal Hill has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Long Beach (1 mi), is 44% below Signal Hill's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Signal Hill
What are the most common crimes in Signal Hill?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 139 a year), theft from vehicle (about 138 a year) and other larceny (about 109 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 4.7 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. Signal Hill's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Signal Hill has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 100.0% 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: 11,045. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Signal Hill, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/signal-hill
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