Monta Loma, Mountain View, CA Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Monta Loma is a neighborhood of 12,700 residents in Mountain View, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Monta Loma?
Violent crime in Monta Loma sits near the national middle: an A, safer than the neighborhoods where 54% of Americans live. Assaults make up 86% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Mountain View as a whole grades A for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 876 of 1,000About as much violent crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
54% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Monta Loma as a whole, and 46% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Monta Loma scores 876.
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 Monta Loma, Mountain View, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Monta Loma in Mountain View, 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 Monta Loma
Simple assaults are uncommon. Monta Loma has simple assaults at less than half the US rate: 3.4 a year per 1,000 residents, against 9.7 nationally.
How Monta Loma compares within Mountain View
Every part of Monta Loma where people live grades A or B for violent crime on the national scale. Violent crime grades across Monta Loma run from A to A-.
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Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Monta Loma has less violent crime than 4 of the 8 neighborhoods in Mountain View. It covers much of the Monta Loma area and the Shoreline West area.
Is violent crime going up in Mountain View?
Reported violent crime in Mountain View as a whole has risen 39% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 2.1 to 2.9 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). In 2024 alone, violent crime rose 13%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Mountain ViewUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Mountain View. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Mountain View
Violent, US
2016
-19%
+4%
2017
-8%
+4%
2018
-5%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-15%
+4%
2021
+15%
+6%
2022
+36%
+5%
2023
+24%
+2%
2024
+39%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Monta Loma
CrimeGrade™ estimates Monta Loma has about 5.7 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 57% less than the US as a whole and 32% less than Mountain View 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 Monta Loma, 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 Mountain View
The Mountain View Police Department polices Monta Loma; these figures cover Mountain View as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Mountain View as a whole, 27% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often at stores and businesses: 49% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Stores and businesses (49%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (27%)
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 Monta Loma and nearby neighborhoods
Monta Loma has more violent crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Barron Park and Cuesta Park have the least violent crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Monta Loma. 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, Monta Loma is safer than 91% of them.
Monta Loma looks like a typical neighborhood on the traits that tend to go with violent crime.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.75% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 64% 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.B- (49 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 63% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.37 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 57% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.9% where people liveUS: 21%Lower than for 51% 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 Monta Loma
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Monta Loma about $6.3 million a year, or $496 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $1.5 million, or $115 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.
