Photo: The original uploader was Sorcha at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 2.5In Yorba Linda, the kinds of crime the grade counts fell 46% per resident from 2023 to 2025
In sum, crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Yorba Linda at B+ (#23 of 416 graded towns in California): less crime per resident than 72% of U.S. towns. Add to that, each year brought 0.6 violent crime and 8.3 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (4.9 and 21.4 in the rest of California). Its 3 neighbors with figures all record more crime per resident.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of CA” is every other California city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Yorba Linda
Yorba Linda reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 3 California towns on Yorba Linda’s borders, 3 have a Safety Grade: Placentia (C), Brea (C−), Anaheim (D). Neighbors ↓
Among California towns, higher
California’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Yorba Linda’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 94% of the 416 California towns we grade, against 72% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Yorba Linda’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Yorba Linda property | Rest of California property | Yorba Linda violent | Rest of California violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10.0 | 24.8 | 0.5 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 11.3 | 25.0 | 0.5 | 5.4 |
| 2024 | 7.7 | 20.9 | 0.9 | 4.9 |
| 2025 | 5.9 | 18.5 | 0.5 | 4.3 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of California.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Yorba Linda | Rest of California | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.5 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.5 | 5.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.9 | 4.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.5 | 4.3 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Yorba Linda’s police reported 123 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.6 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the rest of California and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Yorba Linda per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
420 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
31 violent and 389 property, as reported to the FBI by Yorba Linda’s police.
13 people died in crashes on Yorba Linda’s roads in 2019–2023
Yorba Linda had 12 fatal crashes in five years, in which 13 people died; 3 were pedestrians.
That is 3.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for California towns of 25,000–100,000 people (5.6, 231 towns).
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Yorba Linda and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yorba Linda | B+ | 0.6 | 8.3 |
| Brea | C− | 2.1 | 27.6 |
| Anaheim | D | 6.0 | 21.1 |
| Placentia | C | 2.9 | 15.0 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
California towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yorba Linda | B+ | 0.6 | 8.3 |
| Laguna Niguel | B+ | 1.1 | 8.4 |
| South San Francisco | C | 3.3 | 16.6 |
| Brentwood | C | 2.3 | 20.4 |
| Davis | C | 1.9 | 23.1 |
| Union City | C− | 4.5 | 24.0 |
The five graded California towns closest to Yorba Linda’s population (65,632), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Yorba Linda. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Yorba Linda’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (66,061 in 2025); our figure for Yorba Linda is 65,632 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Yorba Linda
Is Yorba Linda, CA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Yorba Linda reports less crime per resident than 72% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #23 of 416 in California. Its police reported 0.6 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the rest of California and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Yorba Linda?
0.6 violent and 8.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of California reports 4.9 and 21.4; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Yorba Linda in 2025?
Yorba Linda’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Yorba Linda safer than Brea?
Brea reports more crime per resident than Yorba Linda: Brea grades C− for safety and Yorba Linda B+. Brea’s police reported 2.1 violent and 27.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Yorba Linda?
Yorba Linda’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Yorba Linda”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.