Dublin, CA has a B safety grade (68/100) with a violent crime rate of 154 per 100,000, 56% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Dublin, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 68,099 residents, Dublin 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.
Dublin, CA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 56% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Dublin, CA shows violent crime at 154.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,917.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 56% 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
154.2/100K violent
1917.8/100K property
-56% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Dublin, CA
Comparable rate records
Dublin's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Dublin's 154.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Temecula (151.5), Fort Jones (150.4), Manhattan Beach (149.7), Calabasas (159.8). 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
Dublin reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities
At 154.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Dublin ranks 377 of 458 — above 81 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -53.7% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 7.4% of the 1,411 Part I offenses reported in Dublin for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 9.7 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 81.4% of reported property offenses in Dublin, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (107) and motor vehicle theft (136). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 163.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 154.2 in 2024 (-5.6%). The highest observed value was 163.3 in 2020 and the lowest 145.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Dublin'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.
Dublin's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 15.2 Census sq mi, Dublin logged 85.8 property and 6.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Dublin's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 1,411 offenses; mix index 5,854).
Violent offenses are only 7% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (15.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+10%
1742.9 → 1917.8/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-2.8%
158.7 → 154.2/100K
Property offenses lead Dublin's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,306
1917.8
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,063
1561
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
136
199.7
-
Burglary
107
157.1
-
Arson
6
8.8
-
Violent Crime
105
154.2
352
Aggravated Assault
65
95.4
-
Robbery
35
51.4
-
Rape
4
5.9
-
Murder
1
1.5
-
Dublin 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.
Dublin 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
Dublin Police Department
Reporting agency for Dublin NIBRS-participating
Dublin Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Dublin's 1,411 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 Dublin in population. Their populations run from 65,483 to 70,669, against 68,099 here. Or use our
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Dublin at 154.2/100K violent and 1,917.8/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Dublin reported 105 violent crimes and 1,306 property crimes, for a total of 1,411 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Dublin?
From 2023 to 2024, Dublin's violent crime rate decreased by 2.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 10%.
What is the most common crime in Dublin?
The most common crime type in Dublin is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.3% of all reported crimes (1,063 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Dublin'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 Dublin, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.