Davis, CA has a B safety grade (62/100) with a violent crime rate of 186 per 100,000, 47% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Davis, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 65,483 residents, Davis is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against CA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Davis, 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, Davis, CA shows violent crime at 186.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,211.3 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.
B safety grade
186.3/100K violent
2211.3/100K property
-47% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Davis, CA
Comparable rate records
Davis's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Davis's 186.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Dana Point (185.2), Rancho Mirage (188.3), Jurupa Valley (184.3), Murrieta (183.7). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Davis sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 186.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Davis ranks 343 of 458 — above 115 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -44.1% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 140.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 186.3 in 2024 (+32.8%). The highest observed value was 255.5 in 2022 and the lowest 31.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 7.8% of the 1,570 Part I offenses reported in Davis for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 9.3 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 87.0% of reported property offenses in Davis, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (93) and motor vehicle theft (95). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Davis'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Davis's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 10 Census sq mi, Davis logged 145.2 property and 12.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Davis's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (80% of 1,570 offenses; mix index 6,545).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-20.5%
2783 → 2211.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-10.6%
208.4 → 186.3/100K
Property offenses lead Davis's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,448
2211.3
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,260
1924.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
95
145.1
-
Burglary
93
142
-
Arson
26
39.7
-
Violent Crime
122
186.3
352
Aggravated Assault
81
123.7
-
Robbery
21
32.1
-
Rape
19
29
-
Murder
1
1.5
-
Davis 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.
Davis property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Davis Police Department
Reporting agency for Davis NIBRS-participating
Davis Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Davis's 1,570 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Davis in population. Their populations run from 62,891 to 68,099, against 65,483 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Davis reported 122 violent crimes and 1,448 property crimes, for a total of 1,570 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Davis?
From 2023 to 2024, Davis's violent crime rate decreased by 10.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 20.5%.
What is the most common crime in Davis?
The most common crime type in Davis is larceny-theft, accounting for 80.3% of all reported crimes (1,260 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Davis's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.