Bellflower, CA has a F safety grade (20/100) with a violent crime rate of 613 per 100,000, 74% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Bellflower, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 73,883 residents, Bellflower 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.
Bellflower, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 74% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bellflower, CA shows violent crime at 613.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,169.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 74% 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.
F safety grade
613.1/100K violent
2169.6/100K property
+74% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Bellflower, CA
Comparable rate records
Bellflower's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bellflower's 613.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Santa Cruz (612.9), East Palo Alto (607.3), Etna (619.2), San Jose (606.8). 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
Bellflower reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities
At 613.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bellflower ranks 81 of 458 — above 377 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +86.7% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 455.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 613.1 in 2024 (+34.6%). The highest observed value was 613.1 in 2024 and the lowest 455.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 46.1% of reported property offenses in Bellflower, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (256) and motor vehicle theft (608). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 22.0% of the 2,056 Part I offenses reported in Bellflower for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 4.9 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 Bellflower'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.
Bellflower's 2024 municipal footprint
Bellflower leans on larceny-theft at 36% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,583.
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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
+1.9%
601.4 → 613.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-0.6%
2183.6 → 2169.6/100K
Property offenses lead Bellflower's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,603
2169.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
739
1000.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
608
822.9
-
Burglary
256
346.5
-
Arson
12
16.2
-
Violent Crime
453
613.1
352
Aggravated Assault
310
419.6
-
Robbery
118
159.7
-
Rape
20
27.1
-
Murder
5
6.8
-
Bellflower Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Bellflower property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Bellflower Police Department
Reporting agency for Bellflower Summary Reporting (SRS)
Bellflower Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bellflower's 2,056 reported offenses (4-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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Bellflower at 613.1/100K violent and 2,169.6/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Bellflower reported 453 violent crimes and 1,603 property crimes, for a total of 2,056 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Bellflower?
From 2023 to 2024, Bellflower's violent crime rate increased by 1.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 0.6%.
What is the most common crime in Bellflower?
The most common crime type in Bellflower is larceny-theft, accounting for 35.9% of all reported crimes (739 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Bellflower'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 Bellflower, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.