Calimesa, CA has a B safety grade (74/100) with a violent crime rate of 113 per 100,000, 68% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Calimesa (11,503 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then CA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Calimesa, CA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 68% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Calimesa, CA shows violent crime at 113 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,738.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 68% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Calimesa reported 13 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 11,503. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Position in the state cohort
At 113.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Calimesa ranks 408 of 458 — above 50 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -66.1% against the cohort median of 333.1. 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 Calimesa's 113.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Broadmoor (113.3), Bradbury (113.4), Cupertino (111.8), Kensington (111.2). 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 225.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 113.0 in 2024 (-49.9%). The highest observed value was 225.6 in 2020 and the lowest 87.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 6.1% of the 213 Part I offenses reported in Calimesa for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 11.0 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 Calimesa'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.
Based on 13 reported violent incidents in a population of 11,503. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 14.9 Census sq mi, Calimesa logged 13.4 property and 0.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Calimesa's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 213 offenses; mix index 4,738).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Calimesa offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (14.9 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 | 200 | 1738.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 139 | 1208.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 39 | 339 |
| Burglary | 22 | 191.3 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 13 | 113 |
| Aggravated Assault | 13 | 113 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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 · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 9,310 | 225.6 | 3780.9 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 10,149 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 11,667 | 222.9 | 2588.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 11,474 | 87.2 | 2213.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 11,503 | 113 | 1738.7 |
Calimesa Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Calimesa's 213 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Calimesa in population. Their populations run from 11,068 to 11,816, against 11,503 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Calimesa sits at 113/100K violent (grade B); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Calimesa at 113/100K violent and 1,738.7/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
113/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,738.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Calimesa reported 13 violent crimes and 200 property crimes, for a total of 213 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Calimesa's violent crime rate increased by 29.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 21.5%.
The most common crime type in Calimesa is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.3% of all reported crimes (139 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Calimesa 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 Calimesa's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Calimesa, 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. Calimesa is scored in the mid-size municipal band (11,503 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.