Crime in West Covina, California
Major crime in West Covina is 15% above the U.S. rate per resident: 19% lower for persons crimes and 22% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 3.5% 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 2.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in West Covina 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 West Covina
The middle half of West Covina residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 48 and 101; the typical (median) resident's is 65. The citywide figure (115) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5027.1%
- 50–10044.6%
- 100–20020.1%
- 200–4003.7%
- 400+4.5%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 3.5% 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.
West Covina against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
124 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than West Covina; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
West Covina has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Valinda (1 mi), is 40% below West Covina's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in West Covina
What are the most common crimes in West Covina?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 577 a year), shoplifting (about 446 a year) and other larceny (about 407 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle 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. West Covina's figures add up its 65 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- West Covina's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 43.7% 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: 107,058. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in West Covina, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/west-covina
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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