Analytics built by: Location, Inc.
Raw data sources: 18,000 local law enforcement agencies in the U.S.
Date(s) & Update Frequency: Reflects 2022 calendar year; released from FBI in Oct. 2023 (latest available). Updated annually. Where is 2023 data?
Methodology: Our nationwide meta-analysis overcomes the issues inherent in any crime database, including non-reporting and reporting errors. This is possible by associating the 9.4 million reported crimes in the U.S, including over 2 million geocoded point locations…. Read more about Scout's Crime Data
Palos Verdes Estates has an overall crime rate of 11 per 1,000 residents, making the crime rate here near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America. According to our analysis of FBI crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Palos Verdes Estates is 1 in 88. How does Palos Verdes Estates fare compared to other communities in California of all population sizes? Palos Verdes Estates's crime rate is lower than approximately 74% of California communities.
How does the crime rate in Palos Verdes Estates compare to similar sized communities across America? When NeighborhoodScout compared Palos Verdes Estates with other communities its size, we found that the crime rate was near the average for all other communities of similar size. So, whether Palos Verdes Estates's crime rate is high or low compared to all places in the US, when we control for population size and compare it to places that are similar in size, it is near the middle of the pack in crime rate; not much more or less dangerous, and about what we would expect from the statistics.
Now let us turn to take a look at how Palos Verdes Estates does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Palos Verdes Estates.
For Palos Verdes Estates, NeighborhoodScout found that the violent crime rate is well below the national average for all communities of all population sizes. Violent crimes such as assault, rape, murder and armed robbery happen less often in Palos Verdes Estates than in most of America. One's chance of becoming a victim of a violent crime here is one in 3198, which is a violent crime rate of 0 per one thousand inhabitants.
NeighborhoodScout's analysis also reveals that Palos Verdes Estates's rate for property crime is 11 per one thousand population. This makes Palos Verdes Estates a place where there is an above average chance of becoming a victim of a property crime, when compared to all other communities in America of all population sizes. Property crimes are motor vehicle theft, arson, larceny, and burglary. Your chance of becoming a victim of any of these crimes in Palos Verdes Estates is one in 91.
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Violent | Property | Total | |
---|---|---|---|
Number of Crimes |
4 |
141 |
145 |
Crime Rate
|
0.31 |
11.02 |
11.34 |
Murder | Rape | Robbery | Assault | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Report Total | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Rate per 1,000 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.23 |
Murder | Rape | Robbery | Assault | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Report Total | 21,156 | 133,294 | 220,450 | 893,980 |
Rate per 1,000 | 0.06 | 0.40 | 0.66 | 2.68 |
burglary | theft | motor vehicle theft | |
---|---|---|---|
Report Total | 49 | 80 | 12 |
Rate per 1,000 | 3.83 | 6.25 | 0.94 |
burglary | theft | motor vehicle theft | |
---|---|---|---|
Report Total | 899,293 | 4,672,363 | 942,173 |
Rate per 1,000 | 2.70 | 14.02 | 2.83 |