Fort Bragg, CA has a F safety grade (8/100) with a violent crime rate of 696 per 100,000, 98% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Fort Bragg is a small municipal reporter (6,901 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with CA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Fort Bragg, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 98% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fort Bragg, CA shows violent crime at 695.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,637.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 98% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 288.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 695.6 in 2024 (+141.4%). The highest observed value was 789.3 in 2022 and the lowest 288.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 695.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fort Bragg ranks 57 of 458 — above 401 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +111.7% 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Fort Bragg's 695.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are National City (695.6), Mount Shasta (694.9), Chico (699.2), Huntington Park (691.4). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 20.9% of the 230 Part I offenses reported in Fort Bragg 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 Fort Bragg'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 2.9 Census sq mi, Fort Bragg logged 63 property and 16.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Fort Bragg's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 230 offenses; mix index 4,050).
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Fort Bragg offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.9 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 | 182 | 2637.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 138 | 1999.7 |
| Burglary | 26 | 376.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 18 | 260.8 |
| Arson | 3 | 43.5 |
| Violent Crime | 48 | 695.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 36 | 521.7 |
| Robbery | 7 | 101.4 |
| Rape | 5 | 72.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 7,289 | 288.1 | 3827.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 7,213 | 526.8 | 3258 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 6,968 | 789.3 | 3300.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 6,838 | 702 | 2822.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 6,901 | 695.6 | 2637.3 |
Fort Bragg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Fort Bragg's 230 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Fort Bragg in population. Their populations run from 6,566 to 7,336, against 6,901 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Fort Bragg sits at 695.6/100K violent (grade F); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Fort Bragg reported 48 violent crimes and 182 property crimes, for a total of 230 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Fort Bragg's violent crime rate decreased by 0.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.6%.
The most common crime type in Fort Bragg is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.0% of all reported crimes (138 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Fort Bragg 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 Fort Bragg's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Fort Bragg, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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