CrimeMetric

Crime in Turlock, California

Major crime in Turlock is 18% below the U.S. rate per resident: 14% higher for persons crimes and 25% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.3% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
82
18% below the U.S. rate
32% below the California rate
down 9.3% in a year
Persons crimes
114
14% above the U.S. rate
15% below the California rate
up 2.9% in a year
Property crimes
75
25% below the U.S. rate
36% below the California rate
down 12.8% in a year
Social disorder
106
6% above the U.S. rate
about the California rate
down 1.5% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

Check an address in Turlock

Crime by type

Robbery stands out most, at 2.0 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Turlock for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Turlock

The middle half of Turlock residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 33 and 92; the typical (median) resident's is 57. The citywide figure (82) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Turlock, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Tap one to compare it. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5046.1%
  • 50–10034.4%
  • 100–20013.3%
  • 200–4001.8%
  • 400+4.4%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Lowest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm77
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am85
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm84
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am87
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 9.3% in a year; across California it fell 7.4%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-9.3%CA -7.4%-12.8%CA -14.1%
Persons crimes+2.9%CA -3.5%-6.9%CA -6.1%
Property crimes-12.8%CA -8.4%-14.8%CA -16.1%
Social disorder-1.5%CA -4.9%-8.5%CA -9.4%

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.

Similar-size places

Turlock against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents

315 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Turlock; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:

Lakewood, CA77,455131
Iowa City, IA77,357116
Turlock, CA77,22482
Bayonne, NJ77,24377
Napa, CA77,47869

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Turlock 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, Denair (3 mi), is 39% below Turlock's rate.

Empire10 mi148
Ceres8 mi88
Delhi7 mi82
Turlock82
Denair3 mi50
Bret Harte11 mi50
Keyes5 mi47
Waterford10 mi44
Hughson7 mi26

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Turlock

What are the most common crimes in Turlock?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 262 a year), other larceny (about 176 a year) and aggravated assault (about 174 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 2.0 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. Turlock's figures add up its 45 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Turlock's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
  • 54.9% 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: 77,224. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

Full method and validation·Data sources

Cite this page

CrimeMetric. "Crime in Turlock, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/turlock

Use these numbers in your product

Any U.S. address by API or MCP, free for 10,000 lookups a month.

Get a free API key

Nearest cities we publish

Major-crime index, U.S. = 100