Elk Grove, CA has a B safety grade (70/100) with a violent crime rate of 190 per 100,000, 46% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Elk Grove, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 179,074 residents, Elk Grove 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.
Elk Grove, CA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 46% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Elk Grove, CA shows violent crime at 189.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,231.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 46% 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
189.9/100K violent
1231.9/100K property
-46% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Elk Grove, CA
Comparable rate records
Elk Grove's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Elk Grove's 189.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Fillmore (189.4), Carpinteria (189.1), Rancho Mirage (188.3), Davis (186.3). 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
Elk Grove sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 189.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Elk Grove ranks 339 of 458 — above 119 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -43.0% 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 224.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 189.9 in 2024 (-15.4%). The highest observed value was 224.4 in 2020 and the lowest 37.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 80.9% of reported property offenses in Elk Grove, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (198) and motor vehicle theft (224). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 13.4% of the 2,546 Part I offenses reported in Elk Grove for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 3.8 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 Elk Grove'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.
Elk Grove's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 42.6 Census sq mi, Elk Grove logged 51.8 property and 8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Elk Grove's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 2,546 offenses; mix index 5,131).
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (42.6 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
+0.7%
1223.8 → 1231.9/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+0.3%
189.4 → 189.9/100K
Property offenses lead Elk Grove's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
2,206
1231.9
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
1,784
996.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
224
125.1
-
Burglary
198
110.6
-
Arson
9
5
-
Violent Crime
340
189.9
476.8
Aggravated Assault
210
117.3
-
Robbery
90
50.3
-
Rape
37
20.7
-
Murder
3
1.7
-
Elk Grove 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.
Elk Grove 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
Elk Grove Police Department
Reporting agency for Elk Grove NIBRS-participating
Elk Grove Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Elk Grove's 2,546 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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Elk Grove at 189.9/100K violent and 1,231.9/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Elk Grove reported 340 violent crimes and 2,206 property crimes, for a total of 2,546 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Elk Grove?
From 2023 to 2024, Elk Grove's violent crime rate increased by 0.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 0.7%.
What is the most common crime in Elk Grove?
The most common crime type in Elk Grove is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.1% of all reported crimes (1,784 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Elk Grove'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 Elk Grove, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.