Eloy, AZ has a C safety grade (43/100) with a violent crime rate of 485 per 100,000, 38% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Eloy (19,594 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then AZ and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Eloy, AZ carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 38% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Eloy, AZ shows violent crime at 484.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 969.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 38% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 33.3% of the 285 Part I offenses reported in Eloy for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Arizona cities — a gap of 19.0 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Eloy's 484.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mesa (482.7), Glendale (488.4), Tempe (470.3), Flagstaff (463.2). 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
At 484.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Eloy ranks 12 of 64 — above 52 of the 63 other Arizona cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +90.4% against the cohort median of 254.7. 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
Larceny-theft is 66.3% of reported property offenses in Eloy, against a cohort median of 77.9%. The remainder is burglary (49) and motor vehicle theft (15). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2021–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 518.8 per 100,000 in 2021 to 484.8 in 2024 (-6.5%). The highest observed value was 699.9 in 2022 and the lowest 484.8 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Eloy'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.
Across 114.7 Census sq mi, Eloy logged 1.7 property and 0.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Eloy leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,096.
Violent offenses are 33% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Eloy offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (114.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 190 | 969.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 126 | 643.1 |
| Burglary | 49 | 250.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 15 | 76.6 |
| Arson | 2 | 10.2 |
| Violent Crime | 95 | 484.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 81 | 413.4 |
| Rape | 8 | 40.8 |
| Robbery | 4 | 20.4 |
| Murder | 2 | 10.2 |
The chart omits 2020 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2021-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Insufficient reporting | 19,981 | - | - |
| 2021 | Comparable | 17,347 | 518.8 | 1596.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 15,717 | 699.9 | 1997.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 17,767 | 641.6 | 1305.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 19,594 | 484.8 | 969.7 |
Eloy Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Eloy's 285 reported offenses (4-year span 2021-2024).
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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Arizona cities closest to Eloy in population. Their populations run from 13,441 to 23,354, against 19,594 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Eloy sits at 484.8/100K violent (grade C); the Arizona cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Eloy at 484.8/100K violent and 969.7/100K property - matched below outside Arizona (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
484.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
969.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Eloy reported 95 violent crimes and 190 property crimes, for a total of 285 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Eloy's violent crime rate decreased by 24.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 25.7%.
The most common crime type in Eloy is larceny-theft, accounting for 44.2% of all reported crimes (126 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Eloy 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Eloy's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Eloy, AZ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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