Cypress crime rate: the official counts by year
The Cypress Police Department reports its crime counts to the California Department of Justice, which publishes them in the Crimes and Clearances file on OpenJustice. The latest edition, released in July 2026, runs from 1985 to 2025. These are the department's counts for the ten most recent years.
| Year | Violent crimes | Property crimes | Burglary | Vehicle theft | Larceny-theft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 62 | 782 | 148 | 109 | 525 |
| 2017 | 69 | 726 | 142 | 89 | 495 |
| 2018 | 58 | 704 | 146 | 80 | 478 |
| 2019 | 52 | 596 | 98 | 74 | 424 |
| 2020 | 60 | 727 | 133 | 79 | 515 |
| 2021 | 37 | 873 | 113 | 144 | 616 |
| 2022 | 57 | 983 | 270 | 164 | 549 |
| 2023 | 120 | 839 | 255 | 104 | 480 |
| 2024 | 138 | 769 | 220 | 94 | 455 |
| 2025 | 147 | 590 | 150 | 58 | 382 |
In 2025, Cypress police recorded 147 violent crimes: no homicides, 17 rapes, 20 robberies and 110 aggravated assaults. The 590 property crimes were 150 burglaries, 58 motor vehicle thefts and 382 larceny-thefts. Using the Census Bureau's 2020-2024 population estimate for Cypress, 49,498 residents, that works out to about 297 violent and 1,192 property crimes per 100,000 people. These rates are our arithmetic, not figures published by the department.
Property crime in Cypress over ten years
Property crime fell from 782 in 2016 to a low of 596 in 2019, rose to 983 in 2022 and has dropped in each year since, to 590 in 2025. Larceny-theft, the largest group, went from 525 to 382 over the decade. Vehicle thefts peaked at 164 in 2022. The 2025 property crime rate of about 1,192 per 100,000 is below the 1,580 we get for 2016 using the same population base.
Burglary: homes versus businesses
The DOJ file splits burglary into residential and non-residential. Residential burglaries in Cypress went from 75 in 2016 to 25 in 2025, with a low of 17 in 2018. Non-residential burglaries, meaning businesses, offices, schools and similar buildings, moved differently: 73 in 2016, then 240 in 2022, 230 in 2023, 188 in 2024 and 125 in 2025. So most of the jump in total burglaries in 2022 and 2023 came from non-residential buildings, not homes. Cypress has a large business park and a commercial corridor along Lincoln Avenue, which helps explain why the two series behave differently, but the file does not say where each burglary happened.
Violent crime in Cypress: the rise since 2023
Violent crime stayed between 37 and 69 a year from 2016 to 2022, then rose to 120 in 2023, 138 in 2024 and 147 in 2025. Almost all of the change is aggravated assault, which went from 26 in 2022 to 82, 107 and then 110. Robberies stayed close to their usual range of 20 to 33. The DOJ file does not explain the change. Many California departments changed how they record and report crime in these years, and a switch in reporting systems can raise assault counts on its own. We could not confirm whether that applies to Cypress, so ask the police department before you treat the rise as a trend in street crime.
Cypress compared with nearby cities, the county and the state
To compare places of different size, we divided each agency's 2025 DOJ count by the Census Bureau's 2020-2024 population estimate and multiplied by 100,000. The county row adds every agency in Orange County, including the Sheriff's Department, the CHP and campus police.
| Area (2025) | Violent crimes | Property crimes | Violent per 100,000 | Property per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cypress | 147 | 590 | 297 | 1,192 |
| La Palma | 24 | 184 | 157 | 1,205 |
| Los Alamitos | 31 | 187 | 263 | 1,586 |
| Buena Park | 232 | 1,639 | 280 | 1,978 |
| Garden Grove | 416 | 1,845 | 243 | 1,079 |
| Stanton | 138 | 487 | 350 | 1,236 |
| Orange County, all agencies | 8,367 | 41,934 | 264 | 1,325 |
| California | 170,397 | 705,925 | 434 | 1,797 |
On this measure, Cypress had the second-lowest property crime rate of the six cities in 2025, after Garden Grove, and a violent crime rate above the county figure but well under the state's. Small cities swing a lot: La Palma's 24 violent crimes and Los Alamitos's 31 are small enough that a handful of incidents changes the rate noticeably. Compare several years, not one.
Clearance rates in Cypress
The same file counts crimes cleared, usually by an arrest. In 2025, Cypress police cleared 96 violent crimes, about 65% of the year's count, and 97 property crimes, about 16%. Some clearances relate to crimes from earlier years, so treat these as rough ratios.
Is Cypress safe? What the numbers can and cannot tell you
The official figures describe the whole city of about 6.6 square miles and roughly 49,500 people. They do not break down by tract, street or neighborhood, and we found no official Cypress dataset that does. Ranking sites that grade individual Cypress neighborhoods rely on private models, so this page gives no neighborhood ranking and no safe or unsafe verdict.
Three things shape the citywide counts. First, they include crimes against shoppers, students and workers, not only residents: Cypress College, the business park, the race course area and the retail along Lincoln Avenue and Valley View Street draw people from across the region. Second, the counts include only crimes reported to police. Third, a change in recording rules can move a series with no change on the street, as the assault figures above may show. Use the numbers to compare cities on the same basis, then do your own check of the blocks you are considering.
How to check crime near a Cypress address
Ask the Cypress Police Department
The department's records and crime analysis staff can tell you what kinds of calls they see near a particular block, and whether they publish a crime map or monthly statistics. Ask too whether the 2023 to 2025 assault counts reflect a change in how incidents are recorded. The city's website refused our automated requests, so confirm current contact details there.
California DOJ OpenJustice
OpenJustice publishes the Crimes and Clearances file used on this page, with every California agency back to 1985. Download it to compare Cypress with La Palma, Los Alamitos, Buena Park or anywhere else on your list for the same years and the same offense groups.
FBI Crime Data Explorer
The Crime Data Explorer shows the department's submissions to the national reporting program, with charts by offense and year. Its totals can differ a little from the DOJ file because of reporting dates and definitions, so do not mix the two sources in one comparison.
Megan's Law website
The California DOJ's Megan's Law site maps registered sex offenders whose addresses are public. Search the home and the routes you would use each day.
Your own visits
Visit at different times: a weekday evening, a Saturday afternoon and after dark. Near Cypress College, the shopping centers and the race course area, traffic and parking change a lot by time of day and event schedule. Talk to neighbors if you can, and ask the HOA, where there is one, about recent incidents, lighting and gate access.
Flood, earthquake, aircraft noise and insurance in Cypress
Flood zones and storm channels
Coyote Creek, Carbon Creek, Moody Creek and the Stanton Storm Channel drain the Cypress area, and the Orange County Flood Control District runs the regional storm system. Look up any address on the FEMA Flood Map Service Center, ask your lender whether flood insurance will be required, and ask the seller for any flood claims history.
Earthquake and liquefaction zones
Use the California Geological Survey's EQ Zapp to see whether a parcel is in a mapped fault, liquefaction or landslide zone, and Cal OES MyHazards for several hazards in one search. The seller's natural hazard disclosure covers these zones; see our California seller disclosure guide and earthquake insurance guide.
Aircraft noise near the Joint Forces Training Base
The city's 2024 housing environmental report lists aircraft overflights from Joint Forces Training Base Los Alamitos among Cypress's noise sources, along with arterial roads such as Lincoln Avenue, Katella Avenue and Valley View Street. If noise matters to you, visit on a weekday and check the Airport Land Use Commission's maps for the base.
Insurance quotes before you commit
Get homeowners insurance quotes during your contingency period, not after. Prior claims on the property can affect the price. Our homeowners insurance guide explains how the California market works.
A checklist before you buy or rent in Cypress
- Compare Cypress with the other cities on your list using the same DOJ year and offense groups.
- Ask the Cypress Police Department about recent calls near the address and about the 2023 to 2025 assault counts.
- Check the Megan's Law map.
- Visit at night, on a weekend and on a race or college event day if the home is near those sites.
- Look up FEMA flood, EQ Zapp and MyHazards results, and get insurance quotes.
- For condos and townhomes, ask the HOA about security, lighting, gates and recent incidents.
For prices, ZIP figures and schools, see the Cypress real estate guide, the Cypress ZIP codes page and the Cypress schools guide. For a statewide view, see the California crime comparison guide.