Crime in Walnut Creek, California
Major crime in Walnut Creek is 30% above the U.S. rate per resident: 27% lower for persons crimes and 43% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 18.5% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 2.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Walnut Creek 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 Walnut Creek
The middle half of Walnut Creek residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 40 and 138; the typical (median) resident's is 71. The citywide figure (130) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5036.2%
- 50–10032.7%
- 100–20013.9%
- 200–40011.5%
- 400+5.6%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 18.5% 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.
Walnut Creek against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
134 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Walnut Creek; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Walnut Creek 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, San Miguel (1 mi), is 82% below Walnut Creek's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Walnut Creek
What are the most common crimes in Walnut Creek?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 497 a year), theft from vehicle (about 329 a year) and other larceny (about 319 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.2 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. Walnut Creek's figures add up its 50 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Walnut Creek's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 49.8% 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: 71,639. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Walnut Creek, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/walnut-creek
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- San Miguel1 mi23
- Contra Costa Centre2 mi86
- Saranap2 mi62
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- Lafayette4 mi69
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