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Crime Map and Safety Score for Merced County, California

Browse neighborhood-by-neighborhood crime scores for every Census block group in Merced County. Severity-weighted and rate-normalized, built for real estate, PropTech, and location intelligence workflows.

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Merced County, California local context

Merced County, California is a larger regional county market, with an estimated 290,201 residents across 86,055 households based on 2024 ACS 5-year profile data.

The housing profile is more mixed than many county pages, with renter-occupied homes at 46% and owner-occupied homes at 54%.

The county profile also includes broad socioeconomic context, including a 19% poverty rate, a 10.6% unemployment rate, 15.3% bachelor's degree or higher attainment.

Long commutes are a notable local context signal here, with 16.9% of workers reporting commutes of 60 minutes or more.

CrimeScore pairs this county profile with neighborhood-level safety scores and block group map layers so teams can compare local areas inside Merced County without relying on one broad county-level view.

County profile data uses 2024 ACS 5-year estimates.

Population 290,201
Households 86,055
Block Groups 164
Bachelor's+ 15.3%
Owner occupied 54%
Renter occupied 46%
Poverty rate 19%
Unemployment 10.6%
60+ min commute 16.9%

How to read the map

Each colored polygon is a Census block group, typically 600 to 3,000 residents. Greener regions score safer; orange and red indicate higher modeled risk. Click any block group to see its score and grade. A free account unlocks component breakdowns and API access for production use.

About the model

Scores in Merced County come from the same gradient-boosted ensemble we ship through the CrimeScore crime data API, crime score API, and embeddable crime map. Built from normalized national location signals and validated across geography. Protected attributes are excluded from scoring, and prohibited/high-impact uses are explicitly out of scope.