Delano, CA has a C safety grade (56/100) with a violent crime rate of 344 per 100,000, 2% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Delano, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 52,061 residents, Delano 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.
Delano, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 2% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Delano, CA shows violent crime at 343.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,112.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 2% 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.
C safety grade
343.8/100K violent
1112.2/100K property
-2% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Delano, CA
Comparable rate records
Delano's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Delano's 343.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Santa Rosa (342.6), Coronado (345.1), Cloverdale (342.3), Loma Linda (341.5). 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 23.6% of the 758 Part I offenses reported in Delano for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 6.5 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 60.8% of reported property offenses in Delano, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (44) and motor vehicle theft (183). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
Delano sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 343.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Delano ranks 225 of 458 — above 233 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +4.7% 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.
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 345.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 343.8 in 2024 (-0.3%). The highest observed value was 345.0 in 2020 and the lowest 35.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Delano'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.
Delano's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 14.7 Census sq mi, Delano logged 39.3 property and 12.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Delano leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,068.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (14.7 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
-35.2%
1715.8 → 1112.2/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+9%
315.5 → 343.8/100K
Property offenses lead Delano's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
579
1112.2
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
352
676.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
183
351.5
-
Burglary
44
84.5
-
Arson
18
34.6
-
Violent Crime
179
343.8
476.8
Aggravated Assault
123
236.3
-
Rape
28
53.8
-
Robbery
27
51.9
-
Murder
1
1.9
-
Delano 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.
Delano 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
Delano Police Department
Reporting agency for Delano NIBRS-participating
Delano Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Delano's 758 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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Delano at 343.8/100K violent and 1,112.2/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Delano reported 179 violent crimes and 579 property crimes, for a total of 758 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Delano?
From 2023 to 2024, Delano's violent crime rate increased by 9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 35.2%.
What is the most common crime in Delano?
The most common crime type in Delano is larceny-theft, accounting for 46.4% of all reported crimes (352 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Delano'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Delano, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.