Apple Valley, CA has a D safety grade (35/100) with a violent crime rate of 516 per 100,000, 47% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Apple Valley, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 74,764 residents, Apple Valley 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.
Apple Valley, CA carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 47% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Apple Valley, CA shows violent crime at 516.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,602.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 47% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
516.3/100K violent
1602.4/100K property
+47% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Apple Valley, CA
Comparable rate records
Apple Valley's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Apple Valley's 516.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mammoth Lakes (516.0), Seaside (513.2), Hesperia (519.6), El Segundo (512.5). 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
Apple Valley sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 516.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Apple Valley ranks 117 of 458 — above 341 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +57.2% 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 24.4% of the 1,584 Part I offenses reported in Apple Valley for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 7.3 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 59.0% of reported property offenses in Apple Valley, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (201) and motor vehicle theft (290). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 577.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 516.3 in 2024 (-10.6%). The highest observed value was 577.6 in 2020 and the lowest 139.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Apple Valley'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.
Apple Valley's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 77 Census sq mi, Apple Valley logged 15.6 property and 5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Apple Valley leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,873.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (77 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
+269.6%
139.7 → 516.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
+151.2%
638 → 1602.4/100K
Property offenses lead Apple Valley's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
1,198
1602.4
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
707
945.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
290
387.9
-
Burglary
201
268.8
-
Arson
14
18.7
-
Violent Crime
386
516.3
476.8
Aggravated Assault
305
408
-
Robbery
51
68.2
-
Rape
25
33.4
-
Murder
5
6.7
-
Apple Valley Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021, 2023 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Apple Valley property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Apple Valley Police Department
Reporting agency for Apple Valley Summary Reporting (SRS)
Apple Valley Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Apple Valley's 1,584 reported offenses (3-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Cities in California
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Apple Valley at 516.3/100K violent and 1,602.4/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Apple Valley reported 386 violent crimes and 1,198 property crimes, for a total of 1,584 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Apple Valley?
From 2023 to 2024, Apple Valley's violent crime rate increased by 269.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 151.2%.
What is the most common crime in Apple Valley?
The most common crime type in Apple Valley is larceny-theft, accounting for 44.6% of all reported crimes (707 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Apple Valley'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 Apple Valley, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.