Crime in Sonora, California
Major crime in Sonora is 9% above the U.S. rate per resident: 2.0 times for persons crimes and 12% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.5% 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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Weapons violations stand out most, at 4.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Sonora 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 Sonora
The middle half of Sonora residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 36 and 147; the typical (median) resident's is 59. The citywide figure (109) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5031.0%
- 50–10034.8%
- 100–20024.2%
- 200–4006.7%
- 400+3.3%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.5% 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.
Sonora against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
483 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Sonora; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Sonora has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Phoenix Lake (5 mi), is 69% below Sonora's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Sonora
What are the most common crimes in Sonora?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 33 a year), aggravated assault (about 30 a year) and shoplifting (about 15 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations 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. Sonora's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Sonora'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: 5,640. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Sonora, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/sonora
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Phoenix Lake5 mi34
- Twain Harte10 mi62
- Angels11 mi88
- Pine Mountain Lake14 mi64
- Arnold17 mi128
- Rancho Calaveras25 mi32
- Oakdale30 mi70
- Waterford31 mi44