Bullhead City, AZ has a D safety grade (36/100) with a violent crime rate of 455 per 100,000, 29% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Bullhead City (43,923 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
Bullhead City, AZ carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 29% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bullhead City, AZ shows violent crime at 455.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,192.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 29% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 263.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 455.3 in 2024 (+73.0%). The highest observed value was 455.3 in 2024 and the lowest 186.3 in 2022. 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 Bullhead City's 455.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Flagstaff (463.2), Tempe (470.3), Jerome (435.7), Mesa (482.7). 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 455.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bullhead City ranks 16 of 64 — above 48 of the 63 other Arizona cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +78.8% 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.
Property counts dominate Bullhead City'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 59.4 Census sq mi, Bullhead City logged 16.2 property and 3.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bullhead City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 1,163 offenses; mix index 4,503).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Bullhead City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (59.4 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 | 963 | 2192.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 745 | 1696.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 117 | 266.4 |
| Burglary | 101 | 229.9 |
| Arson | 7 | 15.9 |
| Violent Crime | 200 | 455.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 172 | 391.6 |
| Robbery | 21 | 47.8 |
| Rape | 6 | 13.7 |
| Murder | 1 | 2.3 |
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 | 41,035 | 263.2 | 2744 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 41,958 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 42,953 | 186.3 | 1108.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 43,652 | 421.5 | 2070.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 43,923 | 455.3 | 2192.5 |
Bullhead City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bullhead City's 1,163 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 Arizona cities closest to Bullhead City in population. Their populations run from 36,187 to 51,116, against 43,923 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Bullhead City sits at 455.3/100K violent (grade D); the Arizona cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Bullhead City at 455.3/100K violent and 2,192.5/100K property - matched below outside Arizona (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
455.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,192.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+8% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Bullhead City reported 200 violent crimes and 963 property crimes, for a total of 1,163 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Bullhead City's violent crime rate increased by 8%, and the property crime rate increased by 5.9%.
The most common crime type in Bullhead City is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.1% of all reported crimes (745 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Bullhead City 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 Bullhead City's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bullhead City, AZ 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. Bullhead City is scored in the mid-size municipal band (43,923 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.