Crime in Temecula, California
Major crime in Temecula is 34% below the U.S. rate per resident: 45% lower for persons crimes and 32% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 17.4% 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 stands out most, at 14% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Temecula 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 Temecula
The middle half of Temecula residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 25 and 61; the typical (median) resident's is 35. The citywide figure (66) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5068.1%
- 50–10016.3%
- 100–2008.8%
- 200–4006.9%
- 400+0.0%
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 fell 17.4% 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.
Temecula against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
221 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Temecula; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Temecula has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Murrieta (7 mi), is 31% below Temecula's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Temecula
What are the most common crimes in Temecula?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 359 a year), other larceny (about 315 a year) and shoplifting (about 213 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 14% above 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. Temecula's figures add up its 61 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Temecula has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 32.5% 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: 118,342. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Temecula, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/temecula
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