Memorial Park, Santa Ana, CA Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Memorial Park is a neighborhood of 10,500 residents in Santa Ana, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Memorial Park?
Violent crime is high in Memorial Park: a B, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 79% of Americans live. Assaults make up 86% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Santa Ana as a whole grades B for violent crime.
B
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 638 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
21% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Memorial Park as a whole, and 79% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Memorial Park scores 638.
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 Memorial Park, Santa Ana, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Memorial Park in Santa Ana, 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 Memorial Park
Simple assaults are uncommon. Memorial Park has simple assaults at less than half the US rate: 4.0 a year per 1,000 residents, against 9.7 nationally.
How Memorial Park compares within Santa Ana
Every part of Memorial Park where people live grades A or B for violent crime on the national scale. Violent crime grades across Memorial Park run from B to B-.
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Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Memorial Park has less violent crime than 15 of the 32 neighborhoods in Santa Ana. It covers much of the Memorial Park, Sandpointe, and Sunwood Central areas.
Is violent crime going up in Santa Ana?
Reported violent crime in Santa Ana as a whole has risen 10% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 4.4 to 4.8 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 13%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Santa AnaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Santa Ana. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Santa Ana
Violent, US
2016
+10%
+4%
2017
+12%
+4%
2018
+8%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+5%
+4%
2021
+20%
+6%
2022
+7%
+5%
2023
+26%
+2%
2024
+10%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Memorial Park
CrimeGrade™ estimates Memorial Park has about 7.4 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 45% less than the US as a whole and 28% less than Santa Ana 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 Memorial Park, about 86% 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 Santa Ana
The Santa Ana Police Department polices Memorial Park; these figures cover Santa Ana as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Santa Ana as a whole, 33% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 40% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (40%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Streets and sidewalks (36%)
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 Memorial Park and nearby neighborhoods
Memorial Park has less violent crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Memorial Park. 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, Memorial Park is safer than 56% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Memorial Park apart: it has 10 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 93% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places with few jobs tend to report less robbery.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.10 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 90% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.93% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 78% 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.C+ (40 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 57% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Memorial Park: C- (29 of 100).6 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 63% 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 Memorial Park
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Memorial Park about $12 million a year, or $1,165 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $2.4 million, or $223 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. Memorial Park 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.
