Crime in Thousand Palms, California
Major crime in Thousand Palms is 1.9 times the U.S. rate per resident: 1.7 times for persons crimes and 1.9 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 42.5% 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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Theft from vehicle stands out most, at 3.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Thousand Palms 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 Thousand Palms
The middle half of Thousand Palms residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 83 and 208; the typical (median) resident's is 160.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10030.2%
- 100–20037.6%
- 200–40025.8%
- 400+6.3%
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 42.5% 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.
Thousand Palms against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
140 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Thousand Palms; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Thousand Palms 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, Rancho Mirage (3 mi), is 39% below Thousand Palms's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Thousand Palms
What are the most common crimes in Thousand Palms?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 71 a year), other larceny (about 53 a year) and shoplifting (about 42 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 3.5 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. Thousand Palms's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Thousand Palms 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: 7,754. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Thousand Palms, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/thousand-palms
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