El Segundo, CA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 46% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, El Segundo, CA shows violent crime at 512.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 5,464.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 46% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
512.5/100K violent
5464.3/100K property
+46% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for El Segundo, CA
Comparable rate records
El Segundo's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to El Segundo's 512.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Beverly Hills (512.2), Stanton (512.0), Seaside (513.2), Port Hueneme (510.3). 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
El Segundo sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 512.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, El Segundo ranks 120 of 458 — above 338 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +56.0% 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 686.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 512.5 in 2024 (-25.4%). The highest observed value was 749.2 in 2022 and the lowest 459.1 in 2023. 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 8.6% of the 968 Part I offenses reported in El Segundo for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 8.5 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 counts dominate El Segundo'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.
El Segundo's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 5.4 Census sq mi, El Segundo logged 162.4 property and 15.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
El Segundo leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,910.
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.4 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
-19.8%
6813.6 → 5464.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+11.6%
459.1 → 512.5/100K
Property offenses lead El Segundo's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs CA
Property Crime
885
5464.3
1711
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
548
3383.6
-
-
Burglary
220
1358.4
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
117
722.4
-
-
Arson
6
37
-
-
Violent Crime
83
512.5
352
476.8
Aggravated Assault
59
364.3
-
-
Robbery
22
135.8
-
-
Rape
2
12.3
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
El Segundo Crime Trend (2020-2024)
El Segundo 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 averagesRead the chart as a list
El Segundo: 513 violent, 5464 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Ripon: 168 violent, 866 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Clearlake: 829 violent, 1584 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Moraga: 91 violent, 487 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Ukiah: 553 violent, 1370 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Laguna Woods: 60 violent, 893 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Artesia: 475 violent, 2331 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Truckee: 374 violent, 648 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Coalinga: 492 violent, 411 property per 100,000 (grade C)
El Segundo Police Department
Reporting agency for El Segundo NIBRS-participating
El Segundo Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind El Segundo's 968 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 Segundo at 512.5/100K violent and 5,464.3/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, El Segundo reported 83 violent crimes and 885 property crimes, for a total of 968 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in El Segundo?
From 2023 to 2024, El Segundo's violent crime rate increased by 11.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 19.8%.
What is the most common crime in El Segundo?
The most common crime type in El Segundo is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.6% of all reported crimes (548 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: El Segundo 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 El Segundo, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.