Crime in South Lake Tahoe, California
Major crime in South Lake Tahoe is 16% above the U.S. rate per resident: 2.2 times for persons crimes and 8% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.7% 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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Aggravated assault stands out most, at 2.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in South Lake Tahoe 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 South Lake Tahoe
The middle half of South Lake Tahoe residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 55 and 138; the typical (median) resident's is 93. The citywide figure (116) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5024.8%
- 50–10027.4%
- 100–20040.1%
- 200–4003.8%
- 400+3.9%
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 6.7% 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.
South Lake Tahoe against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
500 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than South Lake Tahoe; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
South Lake Tahoe 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, Gardnerville (13 mi), is 31% below South Lake Tahoe's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in South Lake Tahoe
What are the most common crimes in South Lake Tahoe?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 152 a year), aggravated assault (about 125 a year) and shoplifting (about 50 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 2.6 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. South Lake Tahoe's figures add up its 29 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- South Lake Tahoe's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 1.8% 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: 21,092. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in South Lake Tahoe, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/south-lake-tahoe
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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