Downtown Fullerton, Fullerton, CA Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Downtown Fullerton is a neighborhood of 13,400 residents in Fullerton, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Downtown Fullerton?
Downtown Fullerton earns a B+ for violent crime, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 69% of Americans live. Assaults make up 89% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Fullerton as a whole grades A- for violent crime.
B+
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 749 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
31% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Downtown Fullerton as a whole, and 69% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Downtown Fullerton scores 749.
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 Downtown Fullerton, Fullerton, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Downtown Fullerton in Fullerton, 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 Downtown Fullerton
Robberies run high. Downtown Fullerton has robberies at about triple the US rate: 1.8 a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
Where violent crime is lowest and highest in Downtown Fullerton
Every part of Downtown Fullerton where people live grades A or B for violent crime on the national scale. Violent crime grades across Downtown Fullerton run from A to B-.
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Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Is violent crime going up in Fullerton?
Reported violent crime in Fullerton as a whole has risen 69% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 2.7 to 4.5 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
FullertonUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Fullerton. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Fullerton
Violent, US
2016
-9%
+4%
2017
-22%
+4%
2018
-12%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+11%
+4%
2021
+35%
+6%
2022
+47%
+5%
2023
+62%
+2%
2024
+69%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Downtown Fullerton
CrimeGrade™ estimates Downtown Fullerton has about 21 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 54% more than the US as a whole and 89% more than Fullerton 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 Downtown Fullerton, about 89% 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.
Violent crime in Downtown Fullerton and nearby neighborhoods
Downtown Fullerton has less violent crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Downtown Fullerton. 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, Downtown Fullerton is safer than 68% of them.
Nightlife, jobs and walkability in Downtown Fullerton
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Downtown Fullerton apart: it has 3.4 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally, and 111 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report more assault and robbery, and they run high here.
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.3.4 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 96% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.111 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 90% 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. 58% of residents here live in walkable areas.B+ (67 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 75% 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.76% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 65% 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 Downtown Fullerton
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Downtown Fullerton about $22 million a year, or $1,653 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $5.3 million, or $395 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. Downtown Fullerton is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse 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.
