Alhambra, CA has a C safety grade (56/100) with a violent crime rate of 225 per 100,000, 36% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Alhambra, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 78,840 residents, Alhambra is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against CA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Alhambra, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 36% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Alhambra, CA shows violent crime at 224.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,450.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 36% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
224.5/100K violent
2450.5/100K property
-36% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Alhambra, CA
Comparable rate records
Alhambra's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Alhambra's 224.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Orange (226.1), San Marcos (222.4), Temple City (221.2), Stallion Springs (228.2). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
Alhambra sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 224.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Alhambra ranks 315 of 458 — above 143 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -32.6% against the cohort median of 333.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 8.4% of the 2,109 Part I offenses reported in Alhambra for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 8.7 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 208.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 224.5 in 2024 (+7.5%). The highest observed value was 246.6 in 2023 and the lowest 199.3 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Alhambra's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Alhambra's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 7.6 Census sq mi, Alhambra logged 253.2 property and 23.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Alhambra's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 2,109 offenses; mix index 5,043).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-9%
246.6 → 224.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-3.7%
2544 → 2450.5/100K
Property offenses lead Alhambra's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,932
2450.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,454
1844.2
-
Burglary
262
332.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
216
274
-
Arson
5
6.3
-
Violent Crime
177
224.5
352
Aggravated Assault
90
114.2
-
Robbery
75
95.1
-
Rape
11
14
-
Murder
1
1.3
-
Alhambra Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Alhambra property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Alhambra Police Department
Reporting agency for Alhambra NIBRS-participating
Alhambra Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Alhambra's 2,109 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in California
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Alhambra at 224.5/100K violent and 2,450.5/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Alhambra reported 177 violent crimes and 1,932 property crimes, for a total of 2,109 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Alhambra?
From 2023 to 2024, Alhambra's violent crime rate decreased by 9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 3.7%.
What is the most common crime in Alhambra?
The most common crime type in Alhambra is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.9% of all reported crimes (1,454 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Alhambra's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Alhambra, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.