The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Menifee, CA
Menifee is a city of 117,300 in Riverside County, about 25 miles southeast of downtown Riverside · Updated November 2026
Is Menifee, CA safe?
Yes, crime in Menifee is low, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of A-. Because most US neighborhoods are safe as well, Menifee sits near the middle: safer than the neighborhoods where 51% of Americans live. Violent crime grades A and property crime A-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Menifee run from A+ to B+, so check the map below.
A-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 842 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
51% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Menifee as a whole, and 49% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Menifee scores 842.
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 Menifee, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Menifee, 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 Menifee
Burglaries and thefts both run low. In Menifee, each runs at less than half the US rate: 0.98 burglaries and 5.7 thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.4 and 13.1 nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Menifee
Every part of Menifee where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Menifee run from A+ to B+; 54% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Menifee, the southwest side has the least crime and the north side the most.
Is crime going up in Menifee?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Menifee is up 20% and property crime is down 60%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 1.5 to 1.8 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 20 to 8.0 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 32%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
MenifeeUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Menifee. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Menifee
Violent, US
Property, Menifee
Property, US
2016
+0%
+4%
+21%
+15%
2017
-11%
+4%
+10%
+12%
2018
+10%
+0%
+6%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-11%
+4%
-19%
-8%
2021
+62%
+6%
-41%
-10%
2022
+98%
+5%
-29%
-6%
2023
+28%
+2%
-40%
-7%
2024
+20%
-4%
-60%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Menifee
CrimeGrade™ estimates Menifee has about 16 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 58% less than the US as a whole and 61% 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 makes up about 36% of crime reported in Menifee. Assault is less common but costs more, because each one does more harm.
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.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when crime happens in Menifee
Menifee has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Menifee, 48% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 30% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (48%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (38%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Homes (30%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Vandalism
Homes (37%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (45%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (59%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Menifee compares with nearby cities
Menifee has less crime than 7 of its 10 nearest cities.
Two things set Menifee apart: it has 4.0 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 16 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less theft; here theft sits near the national middle.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.4.0 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 95% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.16 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 92% 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. 96% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (8 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 84% of US city residents
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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.1.0 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 76% of US city residents
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.4.3% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 69% 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 Menifee: D- (6 of 100).2 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 52% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Menifee on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
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 Menifee
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Menifee about $639 a year per household, 47% less than the US figure of $1,205. The total is about $23 million a year.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost rises to about $73 million a year, or $623 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$3.3 million
$28
Rape
$1.9 million
$16
Robbery
$1.0 million
$9
Assault
$7.5 million
$64
Burglary
$1.0 million
$9
Theft
$3.4 million
$29
Vehicle theft
$2.8 million
$24
Arson
$130,000
$1
Vandalism
$1.6 million
$14
Total
$23 million
$194
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 Menifee 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. Menifee 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.
Schools in Menifee, CA average a SchoolGrade of B-: 37% of students test proficient, against 31% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Menifee on SchoolGrade
