The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Coachella, CA
Coachella is a city of 44,100 in Riverside County, about 70 miles east of downtown Riverside · Updated November 2026
Is Coachella, CA safe?
Coachella has more crime than most of the country: an overall CrimeGrade™ of C+, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 82% of Americans live. Property crime grades better than violent crime here, B- against C. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Coachella run from A to F, so check the map below.
C+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 504 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
18% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Coachella as a whole, and 82% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Coachella scores 504.
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 crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime 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 Coachella, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Coachella, 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 in Coachella
Crime per resident runs lower than the grade suggests. Few people come to Coachella to work or shop: it has only 18 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. With few visitors, its crime per resident looks lower than its CrimeGrade™ suggests. The CrimeGrade™ weighs each crime against the people, homes and parked cars actually here.
The safest and least safe parts of Coachella
Crime varies widely across Coachella: 24% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 33% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Coachella run from A to F; 4% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
24%43%33%
A or B 24%C 43%D or F 33%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Coachella, the southeast side has the least crime and the center the most.
Is crime going up in Coachella?
Reported violent crime in Coachella peaked in 2021 and has fallen 27% since, back near its 2019 level. Property crime is down 22% from 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 2.7 to 2.9 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 20 to 15 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
CoachellaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Coachella. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Coachella
Violent, US
Property, Coachella
Property, US
2016
+32%
+4%
+50%
+15%
2017
+4%
+4%
+30%
+12%
2018
-17%
+0%
+29%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+21%
+4%
-12%
-8%
2021
+47%
+6%
-9%
-10%
2022
+31%
+5%
-14%
-6%
2023
+12%
+2%
-14%
-7%
2024
+7%
-4%
-22%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Coachella
CrimeGrade™ estimates Coachella has about 31 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 16% less than the US as a whole and 22% less than California.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft is the most common crime in Coachella, about 32% of everything reported.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
The Coachella Police Department reports to the FBI in a format that leaves out vandalism, so CrimeGrade™ makes its own vandalism estimate.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
How Coachella compares with nearby cities
Coachella has the most crime of its 8 nearest cities.
Two things set Coachella apart: it has 0.8% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 18 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less burglary, vandalism and arson, yet burglary and vandalism run higher here than that would suggest.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.0.8% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 99% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.18 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 89% 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 and assault. 82% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (18 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 52% 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.5.9 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 88% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.59% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 87% of US city residents
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Coachella: D- (11 of 100).4 trips an hourUS: noneHigher 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 crime costs Coachella
Crime costs Coachella about $2,440 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, about double the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $102 million a year, or $2,318 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$10 million
$229
Rape
$780,000
$18
Robbery
$830,000
$19
Assault
$4.7 million
$107
Burglary
$750,000
$17
Theft
$2.2 million
$51
Vehicle theft
$2.9 million
$67
Arson
$150,000
$3
Vandalism
$1.7 million
$39
Total
$24 million
$550
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Coachella means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
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.
Schools in Coachella, CA average a SchoolGrade of D-: 25% of students test proficient, against 19% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Coachella on SchoolGrade
