Cypress, CA has a C safety grade (58/100) with a violent crime rate of 285 per 100,000, 19% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Cypress (48,367 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
Cypress, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 19% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cypress, CA shows violent crime at 285.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,589.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 19% below 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 122.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 285.3 in 2024 (+133.6%). The highest observed value was 285.3 in 2024 and the lowest 119.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Cypress's 285.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Paradise (285.5), Orland (285.1), Dixon (283.5), Glendale (287.2). 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 59.2% of reported property offenses in Cypress, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (220) and motor vehicle theft (94). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 285.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cypress ranks 267 of 458 — above 191 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -14.4% 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 Cypress'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.
Across 6.6 Census sq mi, Cypress logged 116.3 property and 20.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Cypress leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,358.
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Cypress offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.6 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 | 769 | 1589.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 455 | 940.7 |
| Burglary | 220 | 454.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 94 | 194.3 |
| Arson | 2 | 4.1 |
| Violent Crime | 138 | 285.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 107 | 221.2 |
| Robbery | 20 | 41.4 |
| Rape | 11 | 22.7 |
| 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.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 49,124 | 122.1 | 1510.5 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 49,094 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 49,588 | 119 | 1998.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 48,786 | 250.1 | 1738.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 48,367 | 285.3 | 1589.9 |
Cypress Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Cypress's 907 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 Cypress in population. Their populations run from 47,647 to 49,549, against 48,367 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Cypress sits at 285.3/100K violent (grade C); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Cypress at 285.3/100K violent and 1,589.9/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
285.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,589.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+14.1% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Cypress reported 138 violent crimes and 769 property crimes, for a total of 907 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Cypress's violent crime rate increased by 14.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8.5%.
The most common crime type in Cypress is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.2% of all reported crimes (455 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Cypress 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Cypress's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Cypress, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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