Escalon, CA has a C safety grade (48/100) with a violent crime rate of 410 per 100,000, 16% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Escalon is a small municipal reporter (7,317 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with CA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Escalon, CA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 16% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Escalon, CA shows violent crime at 410 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,312 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 16% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Escalon's 410.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are La Puente (410.5), Galt (410.8), Ventura (410.9), Lemoore (411.9). 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
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 314.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 410.0 in 2024 (+30.3%). The highest observed value was 470.8 in 2023 and the lowest 314.8 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 23.8% of the 126 Part I offenses reported in Escalon for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 6.7 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 410.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Escalon ranks 184 of 458 — above 274 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +24.8% 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 counts dominate Escalon'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 2.3 Census sq mi, Escalon logged 42.1 property and 13.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Escalon leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,648.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Escalon offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 96 | 1312 |
| Larceny-Theft | 69 | 943 |
| Burglary | 17 | 232.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 10 | 136.7 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 30 | 410 |
| Aggravated Assault | 25 | 341.7 |
| Robbery | 4 | 54.7 |
| Rape | 1 | 13.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 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 · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 7,625 | 314.8 | 1809.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 7,626 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,552 | 317.8 | 1403.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 7,434 | 470.8 | 1251 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,317 | 410 | 1312 |
Escalon Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Escalon's 126 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Escalon in population. Their populations run from 7,171 to 7,458, against 7,317 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Escalon sits at 410/100K violent (grade C); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Escalon reported 30 violent crimes and 96 property crimes, for a total of 126 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Escalon's violent crime rate decreased by 12.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 4.9%.
The most common crime type in Escalon is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.8% of all reported crimes (69 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Escalon is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Escalon's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Escalon, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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