Crime in Stanford, California
Major crime in Stanford is 23% below the U.S. rate per resident: 48% lower for persons crimes and 17% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 7.3% 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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Trespassing stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Stanford 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 Stanford
The middle half of Stanford residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 33 and 64; the typical (median) resident's is 44. The citywide figure (77) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5051.6%
- 50–10041.8%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4005.4%
- 400+1.2%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 7.3% 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.
Stanford against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
999 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Stanford; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Stanford 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, Palo Alto (1 mi), is 1.9 times Stanford's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Stanford
What are the most common crimes in Stanford?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 119 a year), theft from vehicle (about 35 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 31 a year). Compared with the U.S., trespassing 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. Stanford's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Stanford has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 17.9% 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: 19,002. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Stanford, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/stanford
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Palo Alto1 mi145
- Menlo Park2 mi70
- West Menlo Park2 mi33
- Atherton3 mi53
- East Palo Alto3 mi116
- Los Altos Hills4 mi39
- North Fair Oaks4 mi80
- Portola Valley5 mi36