Crime in California (2024)

California agencies reported 964,184 offenses to the FBI in 2024: 186,792 violent crimes, 769,878 property crimes and 7,514 arsons, across 723 reporting agencies.

Per 100,000 residents

Against a 2024 population of 39,364,774 (Census estimates). A floor: California agencies that did not report contribute nothing.

474.5

Violent per 100k

1955.8

Property per 100k

4.2

Murder per 100k

387.3

Motor vehicle theft per 100k

Offenses by category

Offense	Offenses	Share
Murder & nonnegligent manslaughter	1,650	0.2%
Rape	13,812	1.4%
Robbery	45,612	4.7%
Aggravated assault	125,718	13.0%
Burglary	120,112	12.5%
Larceny-theft	497,304	51.6%
Motor vehicle theft	152,462	15.8%
Arson	7,514	0.8%

By county

Counties with sufficient reporting coverage (58 of California's counties).

Largest reporting agencies

Agency	Violent	Property	Total
Los Angeles Police Department	27,656	56,335	84,333
Oakland Police Department	8,376	31,455	39,945
San Francisco Police Department	4,789	31,545	36,600
San Jose Police Department	5,806	24,762	30,715
San Diego Police Department	5,726	23,197	29,059
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office	5,909	17,982	24,149
Fresno Police Department	4,021	17,885	22,117
Long Beach Police Department	3,005	15,454	18,595
Sacramento Police Department	3,976	13,416	17,547
Bakersfield Police Department	2,308	10,277	12,602
Stockton Police Department	3,656	8,422	12,240
Sacramento County Sheriff's Office	2,825	8,631	11,504
Riverside Police Department	1,888	9,067	11,048
Kern County Sheriff's Office	3,160	7,085	10,516
Anaheim Police Department	2,018	7,217	9,287

How to read these numbers

Counts are offenses reported by law-enforcement agencies to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program for 2024(Return A master file, which incorporates the FBI's own NIBRS-to-SRS conversion for agencies that report incident-based data). Nothing here is estimated: an agency that did not report contributes nothing, so totals are floors, not universes.

County figures use headquarters-county assignment: an agency's offenses count in the county where it is headquartered. Sheriff and state-police activity can span county lines; a county's figure is best read as "offenses reported by agencies based here." Counties where reporting agencies cover less than half of the policed population get no page; between 50% and 80% the page carries a visible partial-coverage notice.

Rates per 100,000 residentsuse Census Population Estimates (PEP) for the same year as the crime data. They appear only where the population served by agencies headquartered in a county is within 10% of the population that lives there. Where a police force covers several counties — the NYPD polices five boroughs from its Manhattan headquarters — the two geographies disagree, and a rate would be wrong by several times over in both directions. Those counties show counts without a rate rather than a number that looks authoritative and isn't.

Because non-reporting agencies contribute nothing, every rate here is a floor: the true rate is at least this high. Rates are most comparable between places with similar reporting coverage, which each page states.

Violent crime = murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault. Property crime = burglary + larceny-theft + motor vehicle theft. Arson is tracked separately (from the FBI's de-duplicated SRS/NIBRS arson data) and is excluded from the property composite, following FBI practice. Aggravated assault excludes simple assault.

These figures will not match the FBI's published national estimates(which impute for non-reporting agencies) or the 12-month quarterly trend windows elsewhere on this site — different universes, both documented.