Emeryville, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 250% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Emeryville, CA shows violent crime at 1,231.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 13,487.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 250% 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
1231.2/100K violent
13487.5/100K property
+250% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Emeryville, CA
Position in the state cohort
Emeryville reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities
At 1231.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Emeryville ranks 14 of 458 — above 444 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +274.8% 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.
Comparable rate records
Emeryville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Emeryville's 1231.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Compton (1271.7), Red Bluff (1277.1), Lakeport (1179.9), Stockton (1145.8). 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 867.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1231.2 in 2024 (+41.8%). The highest observed value was 1503.9 in 2023 and the lowest 867.9 in 2020. 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 8.4% of the 1,865 Part I offenses reported in Emeryville for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 8.8 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 Emeryville'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.
Emeryville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 1.3 Census sq mi, Emeryville logged 1,342.5 property and 122.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Emeryville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 1,865 offenses; mix index 5,206).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.3 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
-22.3%
17364.3 → 13487.5/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-18.1%
1503.9 → 1231.2/100K
Property offenses lead Emeryville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs CA
Property Crime
1,709
13487.5
1711
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
1,300
10259.6
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
314
2478.1
-
-
Burglary
95
749.7
-
-
Arson
2
15.8
-
-
Violent Crime
156
1231.2
352
476.8
Robbery
102
805
-
-
Aggravated Assault
51
402.5
-
-
Rape
3
23.7
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Emeryville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Emeryville 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
Emeryville Police Department
Reporting agency for Emeryville NIBRS-participating
Emeryville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Emeryville's 1,865 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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Emeryville at 1,231.2/100K violent and 13,487.5/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Emeryville reported 156 violent crimes and 1,709 property crimes, for a total of 1,865 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Emeryville?
From 2023 to 2024, Emeryville's violent crime rate decreased by 18.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 22.3%.
What is the most common crime in Emeryville?
The most common crime type in Emeryville is larceny-theft, accounting for 69.7% of all reported crimes (1,300 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Emeryville 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 Emeryville, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.