Laguna Niguel is a city of 64,000 in Orange County, about 50 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Laguna Niguel?
Property crime in Laguna Niguel sits near the national middle: an A, safer than the neighborhoods where 57% of Americans live. Theft makes up 62% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A, and vehicle theft grades A.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 858 of 1,000About as much property crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
57% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Laguna Niguel as a whole, and 43% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Laguna Niguel scores 858.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Laguna Niguel, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Laguna Niguel, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about property crime in Laguna Niguel
Vehicle theft runs low. Laguna Niguel has 1.1 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, less than half the US rate of 2.7.
Thefts from cars happen in parking lots and garages far more often than nationally. In Laguna Niguel, 56% of reported thefts from cars happen in parking lots and garages, against 31% nationally.
Where property crime is lowest and highest in Laguna Niguel
Every part of Laguna Niguel where people live grades A or B for property crime on the national scale. Property crime grades across Laguna Niguel run from A to B.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Is property crime going up in Laguna Niguel?
Reported property crime in Laguna Niguel peaked in 2022 and has fallen 16% since, back near its 2019 level. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 9.3 to 8.8 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 11%.
Property crime, change since 2019
Laguna NiguelUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Laguna Niguel. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Laguna Niguel
Property, US
2016
+24%
+15%
2017
-6%
+12%
2018
+5%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-4%
-8%
2021
-20%
-10%
2022
+12%
-6%
2023
+6%
-7%
2024
-6%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Laguna Niguel
CrimeGrade™ estimates Laguna Niguel has about 10 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 57% less than the US as a whole and 63% less than California.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in Laguna Niguel, about 62% of the total, followed by burglary and vandalism.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when property crime happens in Laguna Niguel
Laguna Niguel has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Laguna Niguel, 59% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often in parking lots and garages: 45% of them, against 23% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (59%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (45%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (56%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (28%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Property crime in Laguna Niguel and nearby cities
Laguna Niguel has the least property crime of its 9 nearest cities.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Laguna Niguel. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with cities of similar size and density, Laguna Niguel is safer than 72% of them.
Jobs, parking lots and walkability in Laguna Niguel
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Laguna Niguel apart: it has 24 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 0.9 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places like that tend to report less theft; here theft sits near the national middle.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.24 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 80% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.0.9 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 79% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft. 90% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (14 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 61% of US city residents
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.8.2 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 71% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.28% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 67% of US city residents
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.99% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 65% of US city residents
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What property crime costs Laguna Niguel
Property crime costs Laguna Niguel about $4.7 million a year, or $73 per resident and about $185 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How the cost breaks down
Pain and suffering add little to the cost of property crime, so this is close to its full cost.
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Burglary
$850,000
$13
Theft
$2.1 million
$33
Vehicle theft
$1.1 million
$17
Arson
$92,000
$1
Vandalism
$570,000
$9
Total
$4.7 million
$73
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Laguna Niguel is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
