The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Stanton, CA
Stanton is a city of 43,300 in Orange County, about 25 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles · Updated November 2026
Is Stanton, CA safe?
Crime in Stanton is moderate, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of B-. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 79% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Stanton. Violent crime grades B and property crime C+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Stanton run from B+ to D+, so check the map below.
B-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 571 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
21% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Stanton as a whole, and 79% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Stanton scores 571.
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 Stanton, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Stanton, 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 Stanton
Robberies run high. Stanton has robberies at more than double the US rate: 1.7 a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
Burglaries happen at stores and businesses far more often than nationally. In Stanton, 57% of reported burglaries happen at stores and businesses, against 28% nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Stanton
Low crime is the norm across Stanton: 54% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 2% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Stanton run from B+ to D+; every part of Stanton has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 54%C 44%D or F 2%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Stanton, the southwest side has the least crime and the north side the most.
Crime rates and types in Stanton
CrimeGrade™ estimates Stanton has about 34 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 9% less than the US as a whole and close to 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 Stanton. Assault is less common but costs more, because each one does far 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 Stanton
Stanton has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 44% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (57%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (33%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (45%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Streets and sidewalks (33%)
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 Stanton compares with nearby cities
Of the 10 cities closest to Stanton, 7 have less crime. Los Alamitos and Cypress have the least.
Density, night lighting and walkability in Stanton
Two things set Stanton apart: it has 81% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and 0.6 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places where many residents live in dense blocks tend to report more robbery and car theft, and they run high here.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.81% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 93% 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.100% where people liveUS: 78%Higher 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. 56% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C (32 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 83% 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.0.6 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 89% 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.3.8% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 77% 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 Stanton: C- (26 of 100).6 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 73% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Stanton 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 Stanton
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Stanton about $1,639 a year per household, 36% more 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 $68 million a year, or $1,570 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$3.8 million
$87
Rape
$650,000
$15
Robbery
$2.3 million
$53
Assault
$6.0 million
$138
Burglary
$930,000
$21
Theft
$2.8 million
$65
Vehicle theft
$2.0 million
$47
Arson
$180,000
$4
Vandalism
$1.5 million
$35
Total
$20 million
$465
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 Stanton 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 Stanton, CA average a SchoolGrade of B: 41% of students test proficient, against 30% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Stanton on SchoolGrade
