Colusa, CA has a C safety grade (51/100) with a violent crime rate of 442 per 100,000, 25% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Colusa is a small municipal reporter (6,566 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with CA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Colusa, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 25% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Colusa, CA shows violent crime at 441.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 578.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 25% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 43.3% of the 67 Part I offenses reported in Colusa for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 26.2 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 264.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 441.7 in 2024 (+66.8%). The highest observed value was 598.1 in 2023 and the lowest 248.3 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Colusa reported 29 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 6,566. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Colusa's 441.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Gridley (442.5), Lemon Grove (442.7), Citrus Heights (439.3), Westminster (436.2). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 52.6% of reported property offenses in Colusa, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (8) and motor vehicle theft (10). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 441.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Colusa ranks 163 of 458 — above 295 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +34.5% 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.
Colusa's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 29 reported violent incidents in a population of 6,566. 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.
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 4.4 Census sq mi, Colusa logged 8.7 property and 6.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Colusa's 7 active offense types stay diversified (mix index 2,399); aggravated assault still leads at 33%.
Violent offenses are 43% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Colusa offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.4 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 | 38 | 578.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 20 | 304.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 10 | 152.3 |
| Burglary | 8 | 121.8 |
| Arson | 2 | 30.5 |
| Violent Crime | 29 | 441.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 22 | 335.1 |
| Robbery | 4 | 60.9 |
| Rape | 3 | 45.7 |
| 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.
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 6,042 | 264.8 | 1307.5 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 6,085 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 6,444 | 248.3 | 1179.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 6,353 | 598.1 | 1149.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 6,566 | 441.7 | 578.7 |
Colusa Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Colusa's 67 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 Colusa in population. Their populations run from 6,020 to 7,171, against 6,566 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Colusa sits at 441.7/100K violent (grade C); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Colusa reported 29 violent crimes and 38 property crimes, for a total of 67 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Colusa's violent crime rate decreased by 26.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 49.6%.
The most common crime type in Colusa is aggravated assault, accounting for 32.8% of all reported crimes (22 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Colusa 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 Colusa's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Colusa, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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