Crescent City, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 294% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Crescent City, CA shows violent crime at 1,386 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 6,461.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 294% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
1386/100K violent
6461.9/100K property
+294% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Crescent City, CA
Position in the state cohort
Crescent City reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities
At 1386.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Crescent City ranks 11 of 458 — above 447 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +321.9% 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.
Comparable rate records
Crescent City's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Crescent City's 1386.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Commerce (1448.0), Alturas (1477.3), Red Bluff (1277.1), Compton (1271.7). 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 1148.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1386.0 in 2024 (+20.7%). The highest observed value was 1516.7 in 2023 and the lowest 1148.2 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 85.2% of reported property offenses in Crescent City, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (31) and motor vehicle theft (20). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Crescent 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.
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.
Crescent City's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 2 Census sq mi, Crescent City logged 175.8 property and 37.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Crescent City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 419 offenses; mix index 5,186).
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (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
-8.6%
1516.7 → 1386/100K
Property Crime Rate
+1.8%
6345.9 → 6461.9/100K
Property offenses lead Crescent City's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs CA
Property Crime
345
6461.9
1711
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
294
5506.6
-
-
Burglary
31
580.6
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
20
374.6
-
-
Arson
6
112.4
-
-
Violent Crime
74
1386
352
476.8
Aggravated Assault
55
1030.2
-
-
Robbery
12
224.8
-
-
Rape
7
131.1
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Crescent 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.
Crescent 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
Crescent City Police Department
Reporting agency for Crescent City NIBRS-participating
Crescent City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Crescent City's 419 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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In 2024, Crescent City reported 74 violent crimes and 345 property crimes, for a total of 419 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Crescent City?
From 2023 to 2024, Crescent City's violent crime rate decreased by 8.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 1.8%.
What is the most common crime in Crescent City?
The most common crime type in Crescent City is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.2% of all reported crimes (294 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Crescent City 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Crescent City, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.