Napa is a city of 88,800 in Napa County and the main city of the Napa metro area, home to 134,900 · Updated November 2026
Is Napa, CA safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in Napa is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Napa sits near the middle: 48% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 52% in neighborhoods with less. Violent and property crime both grade A- here. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Napa run from A+ to C+, so check the map or the safest and least safe neighborhoods below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 826 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
48% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Napa as a whole, and 52% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Napa scores 826.
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 Napa, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Napa, 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 Napa
Robberies run high for an A-graded city. Napa has 0.48 robberies a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of an A-graded US city, the figure is 0.13.
Car thefts run high in Beard. In this part of central Napa, they run at more than double the rate in the rest of Napa.
The safest and most dangerous neighborhoods in Napa
Nearly every part of Napa where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Napa run from A+ to C+; 37% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 99%C 1%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
6Beard, centralBurglaries run at more than double the rate in the rest of Napa.B684
Neighborhood areas of Napa, ranked by overall CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer). Each one combines several of the smaller areas on the map.
Is crime going up in Napa?
Reported crime in Napa has fallen since 2019: violent crime is down 19% and property crime down 13%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 3.6 to 2.9 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 16 to 14 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 24% and property crime fell 23%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
NapaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Napa. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Napa
Violent, US
Property, Napa
Property, US
2016
+4%
+4%
+26%
+15%
2017
-4%
+4%
+9%
+12%
2018
-4%
+0%
-0%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-6%
+4%
+6%
-8%
2021
+0%
+6%
-10%
-10%
2022
-9%
+5%
-6%
-6%
2023
+6%
+2%
+13%
-7%
2024
-19%
-4%
-13%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Napa
CrimeGrade™ estimates Napa has about 29 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 22% less than the US as a whole and 27% 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 37% of crime reported in Napa. 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 Napa
Napa has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Napa, 33% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 42% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (53%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (33%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (42%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (33%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (41%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (47%)
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 Napa compares with nearby cities
Of the 7 cities closest to Napa, 5 have less crime. Oakville and Glen Ellen have the least.
Two things set Napa apart: it has a Walk Grade of C- (30 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 34% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Even so, 59% of residents in Napa live in car-dependent areas, where most errands take a car. Places like that tend to report more theft and assault, yet theft and assault run lower here than that would suggest.
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.C- (30 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 80% 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.76% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 74% 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.34% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 72% 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.12.0 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 70% 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 Napa: D (18 of 100).under 1 trip an hourUS: noneLower than for 67% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.49 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 61% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Napa 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 Napa
Crime costs Napa about $927 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 23% less than 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 $100 million a year, or $1,127 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$5.7 million
$65
Rape
$1.5 million
$17
Robbery
$1.3 million
$15
Assault
$9.8 million
$110
Burglary
$2.0 million
$22
Theft
$4.9 million
$55
Vehicle theft
$2.4 million
$27
Arson
$650,000
$7
Vandalism
$2.8 million
$32
Total
$31 million
$350
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 Napa 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 Napa, CA average a SchoolGrade of C: 34% of students test proficient, against 39% projected for schools like them. Overall, they don't meet expectations. See schools in Napa on SchoolGrade
