El Monte, CA has a C safety grade (40/100) with a violent crime rate of 423 per 100,000, 20% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
El Monte, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 102,088 residents, El Monte 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.
El Monte, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 20% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, El Monte, CA shows violent crime at 423.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,052.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 20% above 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
423.2/100K violent
2052.2/100K property
+20% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for El Monte, CA
Comparable rate records
El Monte's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to El Monte's 423.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Yuba City (423.8), Sebastopol (422.6), San Luis Obispo (424.4), Hemet (424.8). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 300.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 423.2 in 2024 (+40.7%). The highest observed value was 423.2 in 2024 and the lowest 300.8 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
El Monte sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 423.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, El Monte ranks 173 of 458 — above 285 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +28.8% 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 57.8% of reported property offenses in El Monte, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (397) and motor vehicle theft (487). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate El Monte'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.
El Monte's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 9.6 Census sq mi, El Monte logged 219.2 property and 45.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
El Monte leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,041.
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+1.7%
2017.1 → 2052.2/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+0.2%
422.4 → 423.2/100K
Property offenses lead El Monte's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
2,095
2052.2
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,211
1186.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
487
477
-
Burglary
397
388.9
-
Arson
14
13.7
-
Violent Crime
432
423.2
352
Aggravated Assault
228
223.3
-
Robbery
166
162.6
-
Rape
32
31.3
-
Murder
6
5.9
-
El Monte Crime Trend (2020-2024)
El Monte property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
El Monte Police Department
Reporting agency for El Monte NIBRS-participating
El Monte Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind El Monte's 2,527 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.
Similar-Size Cities in California
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El Monte at 423.2/100K violent and 2,052.2/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, El Monte reported 432 violent crimes and 2,095 property crimes, for a total of 2,527 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in El Monte?
From 2023 to 2024, El Monte's violent crime rate increased by 0.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 1.7%.
What is the most common crime in El Monte?
The most common crime type in El Monte is larceny-theft, accounting for 47.9% of all reported crimes (1,211 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: El Monte'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 El Monte, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.