Dana Point, CA has a B safety grade (74/100) with a violent crime rate of 185 per 100,000, 47% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Dana Point (32,405 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
Dana Point, CA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 47% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Dana Point, CA shows violent crime at 185.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 873.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 47% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 95.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 185.2 in 2024 (+94.4%). The highest observed value was 185.2 in 2024 and the lowest 56.8 in 2021. 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 Dana Point's 185.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Jurupa Valley (184.3), Davis (186.3), Murrieta (183.7), Folsom (183.4). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 185.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Dana Point ranks 344 of 458 — above 114 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -44.4% 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 Dana Point'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 6.5 Census sq mi, Dana Point logged 43.6 property and 9.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Dana Point leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,801.
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Dana Point offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 283 | 873.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 195 | 601.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 57 | 175.9 |
| Burglary | 31 | 95.7 |
| Arson | 1 | 3.1 |
| Violent Crime | 60 | 185.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 49 | 151.2 |
| Robbery | 9 | 27.8 |
| Rape | 2 | 6.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 33,604 | 95.2 | 1342.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 33,449 | 56.8 | 675.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 32,534 | 169.1 | 1238.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 32,169 | 124.3 | 991.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 32,405 | 185.2 | 873.3 |
Dana Point Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Dana Point's 343 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Dana Point in population. Their populations run from 31,680 to 32,724, against 32,405 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Dana Point sits at 185.2/100K violent (grade B); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Dana Point at 185.2/100K violent and 873.3/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
185.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
873.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+49% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Dana Point reported 60 violent crimes and 283 property crimes, for a total of 343 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Dana Point's violent crime rate increased by 49%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.9%.
The most common crime type in Dana Point is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.9% of all reported crimes (195 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Dana Point 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 Dana Point's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Dana Point, 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. Dana Point is scored in the mid-size municipal band (32,405 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.