Folsom, CA has a B safety grade (69/100) with a violent crime rate of 183 per 100,000, 48% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 86,152 residents, Folsom 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.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Folsom, CA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 48% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Folsom, CA shows violent crime at 183.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,452.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 48% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 100.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 183.4 in 2024 (+82.1%). The highest observed value was 277.9 in 2023 and the lowest 100.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Folsom's 183.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Burlingame (183.2), San Clemente (183.2), Murrieta (183.7), San Gabriel (182.9). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 183.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Folsom ranks 347 of 458 — above 111 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -44.9% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 86.7% of reported property offenses in Folsom, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (101) and motor vehicle theft (65). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 11.2% of the 1,409 Part I offenses reported in Folsom for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 5.9 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 Folsom'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.
Across 27.9 Census sq mi, Folsom logged 44.9 property and 5.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Folsom's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 1,409 offenses; mix index 6,064).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Folsom offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (27.9 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 | 1,251 | 1452.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,085 | 1259.4 |
| Burglary | 101 | 117.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 65 | 75.4 |
| Arson | 9 | 10.4 |
| Violent Crime | 158 | 183.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 104 | 120.7 |
| Rape | 25 | 29 |
| Robbery | 25 | 29 |
| Murder | 4 | 4.6 |
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 | 82,427 | 100.7 | 1478.9 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 83,871 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 83,011 | 139.7 | 1501 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 84,559 | 277.9 | 1734.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 86,152 | 183.4 | 1452.1 |
Folsom Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Folsom's 1,409 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 Folsom in population. Their populations run from 83,622 to 88,948, against 86,152 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Folsom sits at 183.4/100K violent (grade B); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Folsom at 183.4/100K violent and 1,452.1/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
183.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,452.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-34% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Folsom reported 158 violent crimes and 1,251 property crimes, for a total of 1,409 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Folsom's violent crime rate decreased by 34%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.3%.
The most common crime type in Folsom is larceny-theft, accounting for 77.0% of all reported crimes (1,085 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Folsom'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.
Large-city rate methodology for how Folsom's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Folsom, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Folsom is scored here as a large city UCR reporter (86,152 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.