Anderson, CA has a F safety grade (18/100) with a violent crime rate of 842 per 100,000, 139% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Anderson (11,170 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then CA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Anderson, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 139% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Anderson, CA shows violent crime at 841.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,369.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 139% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 841.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Anderson ranks 33 of 458 — above 425 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +156.2% against the cohort median of 328.5. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 38.1% of the 247 Part I offenses reported in Anderson for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 21.0 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Anderson's 841.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lancaster (834.7), Clearlake (828.8), West Hollywood (884.2), San Bernardino (897.1). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 653.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 841.5 in 2024 (+28.7%). The highest observed value was 841.5 in 2024 and the lowest 610.8 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 82.4% of reported property offenses in Anderson, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (8) and motor vehicle theft (19). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Anderson'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.
Across 7 Census sq mi, Anderson logged 21.8 property and 13.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Anderson leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,584.
Violent offenses are 38% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a mid-size city.
Anderson offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 153 | 1369.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 126 | 1128 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 19 | 170.1 |
| Burglary | 8 | 71.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 94 | 841.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 73 | 653.5 |
| Robbery | 13 | 116.4 |
| Rape | 8 | 71.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 10,705 | 653.9 | 1840.3 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 10,626 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 11,447 | 629 | 3503.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 11,296 | 610.8 | 2762 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 11,170 | 841.5 | 1369.7 |
Anderson Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Anderson's 247 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Anderson in population. Their populations run from 10,655 to 11,646, against 11,170 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Anderson sits at 841.5/100K violent (grade F); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Anderson at 841.5/100K violent and 1,369.7/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
841.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,369.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Anderson reported 94 violent crimes and 153 property crimes, for a total of 247 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Anderson's violent crime rate increased by 37.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 50.4%.
The most common crime type in Anderson is larceny-theft, accounting for 51.0% of all reported crimes (126 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Anderson 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Anderson's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Anderson, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Anderson is scored in the mid-size municipal band (11,170 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.