Apache Junction, AZ has a C safety grade (44/100) with a violent crime rate of 426 per 100,000, 21% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Apache Junction (41,994 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then AZ and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Apache Junction, AZ carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 21% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Apache Junction, AZ shows violent crime at 426.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,512.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 21% above 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 216.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 426.3 in 2024 (+96.7%). The highest observed value was 505.9 in 2023 and the lowest 216.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Apache Junction's 426.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Yuma (423.6), Jerome (435.7), Casa Grande (410.0), Willcox (407.0). 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
At 426.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Apache Junction ranks 18 of 64 — above 46 of the 63 other Arizona cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +67.4% against the cohort median of 254.7. 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 22.0% of the 814 Part I offenses reported in Apache Junction for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Arizona cities — a gap of 7.7 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 counts dominate Apache Junction'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 45.5 Census sq mi, Apache Junction logged 14 property and 3.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Apache Junction leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,861.
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Apache Junction offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (45.5 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 | 635 | 1512.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 465 | 1107.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 100 | 238.1 |
| Burglary | 70 | 166.7 |
| Arson | 4 | 9.5 |
| Violent Crime | 179 | 426.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 156 | 371.5 |
| Rape | 18 | 42.9 |
| Robbery | 4 | 9.5 |
| Murder | 1 | 2.4 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 43,385 | 216.7 | 1802.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 44,607 | 287 | 1461.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 41,099 | 330.9 | 1931.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 40,917 | 505.9 | 1669.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 41,994 | 426.3 | 1512.1 |
Apache Junction Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Apache Junction's 814 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Arizona cities closest to Apache Junction in population. Their populations run from 35,815 to 48,680, against 41,994 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Apache Junction sits at 426.3/100K violent (grade C); the Arizona cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Apache Junction at 426.3/100K violent and 1,512.1/100K property - matched below outside Arizona (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
426.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,512.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-15.7% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Apache Junction reported 179 violent crimes and 635 property crimes, for a total of 814 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Apache Junction's violent crime rate decreased by 15.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9.4%.
The most common crime type in Apache Junction is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.1% of all reported crimes (465 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Apache Junction 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 Apache Junction's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Apache Junction, AZ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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