American Canyon, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 8% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, American Canyon, CA shows violent crime at 325.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,240.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 8% 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
325.5/100K violent
1240.6/100K property
-8% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for American Canyon, CA
Comparable rate records
American Canyon's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to American Canyon's 325.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Santa Paula (326.7), Palm Desert (323.7), Perris (327.6), El Centro (328.4). 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.
2022–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 401.6 per 100,000 in 2022 to 325.5 in 2024 (-19.0%). The highest observed value was 401.6 in 2022 and the lowest 301.0 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 20.8% of the 332 Part I offenses reported in American Canyon for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 3.7 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 77.6% of reported property offenses in American Canyon, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (9) and motor vehicle theft (50). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
American Canyon sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 325.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, American Canyon ranks 234 of 458 — above 224 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -2.3% 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.
Property counts dominate American Canyon'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
American Canyon's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 6.1 Census sq mi, American Canyon logged 43.3 property and 11.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
American Canyon's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 332 offenses; mix index 4,207).
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-18.3%
1519.1 → 1240.6/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+8.1%
301 → 325.5/100K
Property offenses lead American Canyon's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
263
1240.6
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
204
962.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
50
235.9
-
Burglary
9
42.5
-
Arson
2
9.4
-
Violent Crime
69
325.5
476.8
Aggravated Assault
43
202.8
-
Robbery
14
66
-
Rape
11
51.9
-
Murder
1
4.7
-
American Canyon Crime Trend (2022-2024)
American Canyon property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
American Canyon Police Department
Reporting agency for American Canyon NIBRS-participating
American Canyon Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind American Canyon's 332 reported offenses (3-year span 2022-2024).
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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to American Canyon in population. Their populations run from 20,534 to 21,897, against 21,199 here. Or use our
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American Canyon at 325.5/100K violent and 1,240.6/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, American Canyon reported 69 violent crimes and 263 property crimes, for a total of 332 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in American Canyon?
From 2023 to 2024, American Canyon's violent crime rate increased by 8.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 18.3%.
What is the most common crime in American Canyon?
The most common crime type in American Canyon is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.4% of all reported crimes (204 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: American Canyon figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 American Canyon, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.