Civic Center, Stockton, CA Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Civic Center is a neighborhood of 16,200 residents in Stockton, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Civic Center?
Violent crime is high in Civic Center: an F, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 98% of Americans live. Assaults make up 83% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Stockton as a whole grades D for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000More violent crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
2% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Civic Center as a whole, and 98% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Civic Center scores 0.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Civic Center, Stockton, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Civic Center in Stockton, 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 violent crime in Civic Center
Robberies and aggravated assaults both run high. In Civic Center, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 9.6 robberies and 21.1 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 and 2.6 nationally.
How Civic Center compares within Stockton
Every part of Civic Center grades D or F for violent crime on the national scale. Violent crime grades across Civic Center run from D- to F.
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D or F 100%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Civic Center has less violent crime than 0 of the 15 neighborhoods in Stockton. It covers much of the Pacific and Civic Center areas.
Is violent crime going up in Stockton?
Reported violent crime in Stockton as a whole has fallen 20% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 14 to 11 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
StocktonUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Stockton. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Stockton
Violent, US
2016
+2%
+4%
2017
+1%
+4%
2018
+0%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-10%
+4%
2021
-17%
+6%
2022
-17%
+5%
2023
-18%
+2%
2024
-20%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Civic Center
CrimeGrade™ estimates Civic Center has about 65 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than triple the rate for the US as a whole and more than double the rate for Stockton as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Civic Center, about 83% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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 violent crime happens in Stockton
The Stockton Police Department polices Civic Center; these figures cover Stockton as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Stockton as a whole, 42% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often at stores and businesses: 38% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Stores and businesses (38%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (42%)
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.
Violent crime in Civic Center and nearby neighborhoods
Civic Center has the most violent crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Civic Center. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Civic Center has more violent crime than 93% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Civic Center apart: it has 139 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 0.9 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally. Places like that tend to report more robbery, and it runs high here.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.139 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 92% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.0.9 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 79% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 assault. 53% of residents here live in walkable areas.B+ (64 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 74% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.71% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 61% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 violent crime costs Civic Center
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Civic Center about $166 million a year, or $10,247 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $33 million, or $2,019 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
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.
