Bishop, CA has a F safety grade (9/100) with a violent crime rate of 915 per 100,000, 160% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Bishop is a small municipal reporter (3,715 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with CA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Bishop, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 160% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bishop, CA shows violent crime at 915.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,395.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 160% 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 915.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bishop ranks 25 of 458 — above 433 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +178.6% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bishop's 915.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Signal Hill (912.5), Needles (918.6), Lynwood (910.0), Sonora (920.4). 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 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 696.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 915.2 in 2024 (+31.4%). The highest observed value was 915.2 in 2024 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 27.6% of the 123 Part I offenses reported in Bishop for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 10.5 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
Larceny-theft is 88.8% of reported property offenses in Bishop, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (5) and motor vehicle theft (5). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Bishop'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 1.9 Census sq mi, Bishop logged 47.7 property and 18.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bishop's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 123 offenses; mix index 4,660).
Violent offenses are 28% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Bishop offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.9 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 | 89 | 2395.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 79 | 2126.5 |
| Burglary | 5 | 134.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5 | 134.6 |
| Arson | 1 | 26.9 |
| Violent Crime | 34 | 915.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 27 | 726.8 |
| Rape | 5 | 134.6 |
| Robbery | 2 | 53.8 |
| 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 | 3,733 | 696.5 | 3562.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 3,769 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 3,817 | 786 | 5423.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 3,746 | 747.5 | 3390.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,715 | 915.2 | 2395.7 |
Bishop Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bishop's 123 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 Bishop in population. Their populations run from 3,203 to 4,130, against 3,715 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Bishop sits at 915.2/100K violent (grade F); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Bishop reported 34 violent crimes and 89 property crimes, for a total of 123 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Bishop's violent crime rate increased by 22.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 29.3%.
The most common crime type in Bishop is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.2% of all reported crimes (79 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Bishop is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Bishop's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bishop, 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. Bishop is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (3,715 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.