Avondale, AZ has a C safety grade (44/100) with a violent crime rate of 370 per 100,000, 5% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Avondale, AZ Crime Rate & Safety
At 94,911 residents, Avondale is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against AZ and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Avondale, AZ carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 5% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Avondale, AZ shows violent crime at 369.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,241 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 5% 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.
C safety grade
369.8/100K violent
2241/100K property
+5% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Avondale, AZ
Comparable rate records
Avondale's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Arizona cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Avondale's 369.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are El Mirage (382.5), Lake Havasu City (355.6), Parker (353.7), Prescott (335.1). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Avondale sits mid-pack among comparable Arizona cities
At 369.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Avondale ranks 23 of 64 — above 41 of the 63 other Arizona cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +45.2% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 347.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 369.8 in 2024 (+6.6%). The highest observed value was 464.1 in 2023 and the lowest 347.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Avondale'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.
Avondale's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 47.8 Census sq mi, Avondale logged 44.5 property and 7.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Avondale's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 2,478 offenses; mix index 4,883).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (47.8 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
-20.3%
464.1 → 369.8/100K
Property Crime Rate
-9.7%
2482.2 → 2241/100K
Property offenses lead Avondale's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs AZ
Property Crime
2,127
2241
1711
1786
Larceny-Theft
1,680
1770.1
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
260
273.9
-
-
Burglary
187
197
-
-
Arson
8
8.4
-
-
Violent Crime
351
369.8
352
428.6
Aggravated Assault
265
279.2
-
-
Rape
44
46.4
-
-
Robbery
37
39
-
-
Murder
5
5.3
-
-
Avondale Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Avondale property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Avondale Police Department
Reporting agency for Avondale NIBRS-participating
Avondale Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Avondale's 2,478 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 Arizona
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Arizona cities closest to Avondale in population. Their populations run from 60,507 to 116,892, against 94,911 here. Or use our
side-by-side compare tool
to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Avondale reported 351 violent crimes and 2,127 property crimes, for a total of 2,478 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Avondale?
From 2023 to 2024, Avondale's violent crime rate decreased by 20.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9.7%.
What is the most common crime in Avondale?
The most common crime type in Avondale is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.8% of all reported crimes (1,680 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Avondale'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 Avondale, AZ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.