Cathedral City, CA has a B safety grade (61/100) with a violent crime rate of 283 per 100,000, 20% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Cathedral City, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 52,602 residents, Cathedral City 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.
Cathedral City, CA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 20% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cathedral City, CA shows violent crime at 283.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,220.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 20% 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.
B safety grade
283.3/100K violent
1220.5/100K property
-20% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Cathedral City, CA
Comparable rate records
Cathedral City's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Cathedral City's 283.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Dixon (283.5), San Dimas (282.6), Orland (285.1), Cypress (285.3). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 234.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 283.3 in 2024 (+20.7%). The highest observed value was 294.5 in 2023 and the lowest 234.6 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 55.8% of reported property offenses in Cathedral City, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (97) and motor vehicle theft (187). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
Cathedral City sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 283.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cathedral City ranks 270 of 458 — above 188 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -15.0% 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.
Property counts dominate Cathedral 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.
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.
Cathedral City's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 22.5 Census sq mi, Cathedral City logged 28.6 property and 6.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Cathedral City leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,952.
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (22.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-11.2%
1374.5 → 1220.5/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-3.8%
294.5 → 283.3/100K
Property offenses lead Cathedral City's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
642
1220.5
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
358
680.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
187
355.5
-
Burglary
97
184.4
-
Arson
15
28.5
-
Violent Crime
149
283.3
476.8
Aggravated Assault
104
197.7
-
Robbery
29
55.1
-
Rape
16
30.4
-
Murder
0
0
-
Cathedral City 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.
Cathedral City property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Cathedral City Police Department
Reporting agency for Cathedral City NIBRS-participating
Cathedral City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Cathedral City's 791 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.
Similar-Size Cities in California
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Cathedral City at 283.3/100K violent and 1,220.5/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Cathedral City reported 149 violent crimes and 642 property crimes, for a total of 791 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Cathedral City?
From 2023 to 2024, Cathedral City's violent crime rate decreased by 3.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.2%.
What is the most common crime in Cathedral City?
The most common crime type in Cathedral City is larceny-theft, accounting for 45.3% of all reported crimes (358 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Cathedral City'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 Cathedral City, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.