Corcoran, CA has a D safety grade (39/100) with a violent crime rate of 522 per 100,000, 48% above the national average.

FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city

Corcoran, CA Crime Rate & Safety

Corcoran (21,831 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

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D
Safety grade
1,016.9
Property / 100K
522.2
Violent / 100K
22K
Population

Corcoran, CA carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 48% above the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Corcoran, CA shows violent crime at 522.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,016.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 48% 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
  • 522.2/100K violent
  • 1016.9/100K property
  • +48% vs U.S.

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Corcoran, CA

Comparable rate records

Corcoran's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort

The nearest comparable 2024 records to Corcoran's 522.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Salinas (524.5), Hesperia (519.6), South Gate (525.6), Apple Valley (516.3). 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.

Offense mix

Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix

Violent offenses are 33.9% of the 336 Part I offenses reported in Corcoran for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 16.8 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.

Position in the state cohort

Corcoran reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities

At 522.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Corcoran ranks 115 of 458 — above 343 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +59.0% 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-offense composition

Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort

Larceny-theft is 57.2% of reported property offenses in Corcoran, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (62) and motor vehicle theft (33). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.

2020–2024 direction

The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started

Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 516.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 522.2 in 2024 (+1.2%). The highest observed value was 567.6 in 2023 and the lowest 274.1 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

Property counts dominate Corcoran'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.

Corcoran's 2024 municipal footprint

Across 7.5 Census sq mi, Corcoran logged 29.8 property and 15.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.

Corcoran leans on larceny-theft at 38% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,666.

Violent offenses are 34% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.

Corcoran offense mix (2024)

Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.

Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)

Violent Crime Rate
-8%
567.6 → 522.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-6.5%
1087.2 → 1016.9/100K

Property offenses lead Corcoran's 2024 record

Offense Count Rate /100K
Property Crime 222 1016.9
Larceny-Theft 127 581.7
Burglary 62 284
Motor Vehicle Theft 33 151.2
Arson 5 22.9
Violent Crime 114 522.2
Aggravated Assault 94 430.6
Rape 11 50.4
Robbery 7 32.1
Murder 2 9.2

Corcoran Crime Trend (2020-2024)

Corcoran property crime rate trend

Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR

Property crime rate (2024)
1,016.9/100K 6.5% vs 2023
05001,0001,5002,000 20202021202220232024 1,017

Corcoran violent crime rate trend

Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR

Violent crime rate (2024)
522.2/100K 8% vs 2023
200300400500600 20202021202220232024 522
Year Coverage Population Violent Rate Property Rate
2020 Comparable 21,700 516.1 1843.3
2021 Comparable 21,524 274.1 511.1
2022 Comparable 22,609 486.5 1278.3
2023 Comparable 22,902 567.6 1087.2
2024 Comparable 21,831 522.2 1016.9

How Corcoran sits among CA peers

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Corcoran vs. similar-size CA cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 9 cities; the anchor is ringed. Corcoran vs. similar-size CA cities, violent vs. property crime 70 707 Violent crime per 100K → 164 1,848 Property crime per 100K → Corcoran SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages

Corcoran Police Department

Reporting agency for Corcoran NIBRS-participating

Corcoran Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Corcoran's 336 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).

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

Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Corcoran in population. Their populations run from 21,199 to 22,570, against 21,831 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.

Corcoran's closest CA violent-rate matches

Corcoran sits at 522.2/100K violent (grade D); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.

Out-of-state peers for Corcoran

Corcoran at 522.2/100K violent and 1,016.9/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).

More about Corcoran's 2024 record

How many crimes were reported in Corcoran?

In 2024, Corcoran reported 114 violent crimes and 222 property crimes, for a total of 336 reported offenses.

Is crime increasing or decreasing in Corcoran?

From 2023 to 2024, Corcoran's violent crime rate decreased by 8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.5%.

What is the most common crime in Corcoran?

The most common crime type in Corcoran is larceny-theft, accounting for 37.8% of all reported crimes (127 incidents in 2024).

Mid-size read: Corcoran 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.

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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Corcoran, 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. Corcoran is scored in the mid-size municipal band (21,831 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.