Citrus Heights, CA has a D safety grade (38/100) with a violent crime rate of 439 per 100,000, 25% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Citrus Heights, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 85,809 residents, Citrus Heights 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.
Citrus Heights, CA carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 25% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Citrus Heights, CA shows violent crime at 439.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,126.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 25% 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.
D safety grade
439.3/100K violent
2126.8/100K property
+25% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Citrus Heights, CA
Comparable rate records
Citrus Heights's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Citrus Heights's 439.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Colusa (441.7), Westminster (436.2), Gridley (442.5), Lemon Grove (442.7). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 323.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 439.3 in 2024 (+35.7%). The highest observed value was 439.3 in 2024 and the lowest 323.8 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Citrus Heights sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 439.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Citrus Heights ranks 164 of 458 — above 294 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +33.8% 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.
Property counts dominate Citrus Heights'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.
Citrus Heights's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 14.2 Census sq mi, Citrus Heights logged 128.4 property and 26.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Citrus Heights leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,786.
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (14.2 sq mi); 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
+5.7%
415.6 → 439.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
+1.1%
2103.8 → 2126.8/100K
Property offenses lead Citrus Heights's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,825
2126.8
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,265
1474.2
-
Burglary
317
369.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
243
283.2
-
Arson
36
42
-
Violent Crime
377
439.3
352
Aggravated Assault
259
301.8
-
Robbery
82
95.6
-
Rape
33
38.5
-
Murder
3
3.5
-
Citrus Heights 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.
Citrus Heights 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
Citrus Heights Police Department
Reporting agency for Citrus Heights NIBRS-participating
Citrus Heights Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Citrus Heights's 2,202 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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Citrus Heights at 439.3/100K violent and 2,126.8/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Citrus Heights reported 377 violent crimes and 1,825 property crimes, for a total of 2,202 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Citrus Heights?
From 2023 to 2024, Citrus Heights's violent crime rate increased by 5.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 1.1%.
What is the most common crime in Citrus Heights?
The most common crime type in Citrus Heights is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.4% of all reported crimes (1,265 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Citrus Heights'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 Citrus Heights, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.