Fairfield crime by year: the official DOJ counts
Every California police agency sends its counts of serious offenses to the state Department of Justice, which publishes them as the Crimes and Clearances dataset on OpenJustice. Violent crime there means homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. Property crime means burglary, motor vehicle theft and larceny-theft. A crime is "cleared" when it is closed, usually by an arrest. The table shows the Fairfield Police Department's rows from the edition covering 1985 to 2025, published in July 2026.
| Year | Violent crimes | Property crimes | Violent cleared | Property cleared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 476 | 2,845 | 250 (53%) | 274 (10%) |
| 2017 | 546 | 3,252 | 261 (48%) | 253 (8%) |
| 2018 | 587 | 3,280 | 275 (47%) | 255 (8%) |
| 2019 | 442 | 3,782 | 194 (44%) | 243 (6%) |
| 2020 | 542 | 2,990 | 236 (44%) | 236 (8%) |
| 2021 | 572 | 2,813 | 234 (41%) | 173 (6%) |
| 2022 | 588 | 3,045 | 264 (45%) | 251 (8%) |
| 2023 | 684 | 2,630 | 316 (46%) | 200 (8%) |
| 2024 | 601 | 2,041 | 292 (49%) | 189 (9%) |
| 2025 | 639 | 2,155 | 311 (49%) | 238 (11%) |
Fairfield violent crime, 2016 to 2025
Violent crime has drifted up over the decade. Fairfield police recorded 476 violent crimes in 2016 and 639 in 2025, a rise of about 34%, with the high point of 684 in 2023. Aggravated assault explains nearly all of the change: 266 cases in 2016, 451 in 2023 and 430 in 2025. Robberies held steady, at 147 in both 2016 and 2025, with the fewest of the ten years, 142, in 2024. The file shows 8 homicides in Fairfield in 2025, after 1 in 2024 and 4 to 11 a year from 2016 to 2023, and 54 rapes, close to the 2016 count of 56.
Fairfield property crime, 2016 to 2025
Property crime fell sharply. The 2,155 property crimes in 2025 were 24% below 2016's 2,845 and 43% below the 2019 peak of 3,782, though up 6% from 2024's ten-year low of 2,041. From 2024 to 2025 burglary fell from 259 to 223, while motor vehicle theft rose from 287 to 378 and larceny-theft, which covers shoplifting, thefts from cars and similar offenses, from 1,495 to 1,554. Vehicle thefts in 2025 were still about 41% below the 2019 figure of 643. The same file counts 52 arsons in Fairfield in 2025, down from 79 in 2021.
Fairfield clearance rates
Fairfield police cleared 311 of 639 violent crimes in 2025, or 49%, above the statewide share of about 46% in the same DOJ file. The property clearance rate was 11%, the same as the statewide 11%. Over the decade Fairfield's violent clearance rate ranged from 41% in 2021 to 53% in 2016, and its property rate stayed between 6% and 11%. Most thefts are never solved anywhere in California, which is why locks, lighting and cameras matter more to a homeowner than the arrest rate.
Fairfield crime per 1,000 residents, compared with Solano County cities
Raw counts favor small cities, so we divide each agency's 2025 DOJ counts by its population from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey 2020-2024 estimates, the latest available. Fairfield's estimate is 120,785. These rates are our own arithmetic, not an official figure, and they count crimes where they happen: a city with a regional mall, a freeway corridor or a county courthouse records incidents involving people who live elsewhere.
| Place (2025) | Violent crimes | Property crimes | Violent per 1,000 | Property per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairfield | 639 | 2,155 | 5.3 | 17.8 |
| Suisun City | 78 | 414 | 2.7 | 14.1 |
| Vacaville | 276 | 1,554 | 2.7 | 15.1 |
| Vallejo | 949 | 3,734 | 7.6 | 30.0 |
| Benicia | 21 | 214 | 0.8 | 8.0 |
| California (all agencies) | 170,397 | 705,925 | 4.3 | 18.0 |
On this measure Fairfield's violent crime rate is above the state's and its property crime rate is about level with it. Among Solano County cities, Fairfield's violent rate sits between Vacaville's and Vallejo's, and its property rate is a little above Vacaville's and well below Vallejo's. Fairfield is home to about 27% of Solano County's 451,918 residents and recorded 29% of the county's 2,171 violent crimes and 25% of its 8,659 property crimes in 2025, counting every agency in the county file.
What the Fairfield figures can and cannot tell you
The 2022 switch to incident-based reporting in Fairfield
In an October 2023 notice, the Fairfield Police Department said it went live with the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and the state's California Incident-Based Reporting System (CIBRS) in November 2022. NIBRS records up to 10 offenses in a single incident, while the older summary system counted each incident once by its most serious offense. Treat the figures from 2023 on as a new series: some of the change from earlier years may come from how crimes are counted, not only from how many occur.
Why we do not rank Fairfield neighborhoods
The DOJ and FBI publish crime counts for each agency, not for neighborhoods or ZIP codes, and we found no official Fairfield dataset that reports crime rates by area. Websites that grade Fairfield neighborhoods from A to F model or estimate those grades. We do not repeat them, and we do not call any part of the city safe or unsafe. Crime also clusters around shopping centers, transit and a few problem addresses, so a citywide rate says little about one street. The useful step is to look at reported incidents near the specific home, as described below.
Two other limits apply. Many thefts are never reported, and campaigns that make reporting easier can raise counts without more crime. The DOJ's July 2026 edition adds 2025, the latest year on this page.
How to check crime near a Fairfield address
Fairfield Police Department transparency portal and crime dashboard
The department's October 2023 notice points residents to a crime dashboard inside its Transparency Portal (listed under SB 978) on the city website, alongside its NIBRS quarterly figures. In April 2023 it also added a hate crimes dashboard to the portal covering January 2011 to the latest month. The city website blocked our requests when we checked, so open the portal from the police pages at fairfield.ca.gov and confirm which reports are current.
Fairfield incident map
The web address fpd.crimegraphics.com, an older crime-mapping address, now forwards to a CitizenRIMS records portal set up for Fairfield, CA, fairfieldca.citizenrims.com. Ask the department whether it is the current public incident map, then review three to six months of incidents within a few blocks of the address.
Call the Fairfield Police Department
The department is at 1000 Webster Street, Fairfield, CA 94533, and its non-emergency line is 707-428-7300. Ask about calls for service to the address and the block, and whether a Neighborhood Watch group is active there. Residents can sign up for alerts by texting their ZIP code to 888777, and can send anonymous tips by texting TIP FAIRFIELDPD and a message to the same number.
California DOJ OpenJustice for Fairfield trends
OpenJustice holds the long-run series used above, back to 1985, plus arrests, use of force and other datasets. It is the best place to compare Fairfield with any other California city on identical definitions.
FBI Crime Data Explorer
The FBI's Crime Data Explorer shows NIBRS data by agency with state and national comparisons. Its totals can differ from the DOJ file because of reporting timing and definitions, so do not mix the two in one comparison.
Megan's Law search
The California DOJ's Megan's Law website maps registered sex offenders by address. Read the site's rules on how the information may be used before relying on it.
Fire, flood and insurance checks for a Fairfield home
Crime is one cost of ownership; natural hazards and insurance are others, and they vary by street. Look the address up in Cal OES's MyHazards tool for flood, fire, earthquake and tsunami layers, and on the FEMA Flood Map Service Center for the flood zone that a lender will use. Homes near the hills and open space on the city's western and northern edges should also be checked on CAL FIRE's fire hazard severity zone map; our wildfire zone guide explains the zones and the disclosures that follow. Ask for an insurance quote before you remove contingencies; our homeowners insurance guide covers the FAIR Plan and why quotes now differ so much. The seller's statutory disclosures, covered in our seller disclosure guide, include the natural hazard report but not crime history.
A Fairfield buyer's and renter's checklist
- Read the DOJ figures for five or more years, and remember the November 2022 reporting change.
- Review recent incidents within a few blocks of the address on the city's crime dashboard or incident map.
- Call 707-428-7300 and ask about calls for service to the address.
- Visit on a weekday evening and a weekend night.
- Talk to neighbors, and ask whether a Neighborhood Watch group covers the street.
- Run the Megan's Law search.
- Check flood, fire and earthquake layers and get an insurance quote.
For prices and areas, see our Fairfield homes guide, Fairfield ZIP codes and is Fairfield a good place to live. Statewide comparisons are in our guide to crime rates across California.