Crime in Yorba Linda, California
Major crime in Yorba Linda is 69% below the U.S. rate per resident: 80% lower for persons crimes and 67% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.5% 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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Every crime type in Yorba Linda is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Yorba Linda 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 Yorba Linda
The middle half of Yorba Linda residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 17 and 36; the typical (median) resident's is 19. The citywide figure (31) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5082.3%
- 50–10015.5%
- 100–2002.2%
- 200–4000.0%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 12.5% 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.
Yorba Linda against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
528 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Yorba Linda; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Yorba Linda has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Placentia (4 mi), is 2.3 times Yorba Linda's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Yorba Linda
What are the most common crimes in Yorba Linda?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 98 a year), shoplifting (about 66 a year) and other larceny (about 64 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 36% below 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. Yorba Linda's figures add up its 43 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Yorba Linda's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 21.1% 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: 65,257. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Yorba Linda, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/yorba-linda
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Placentia4 mi71
- Villa Park5 mi36
- Brea6 mi135
- Orange7 mi62
- Chino Hills7 mi47
- Anaheim8 mi132
- Diamond Bar8 mi119
- Fullerton8 mi114