Fremont, CA has a B safety grade (60/100) with a violent crime rate of 196 per 100,000, 44% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Fremont, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 224,820 residents, Fremont 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.
Fremont, CA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 44% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fremont, CA shows violent crime at 195.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,327.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 44% 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.
B safety grade
195.7/100K violent
2327.6/100K property
-44% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Fremont, CA
Comparable rate records
Fremont's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Fremont's 195.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Del Rey Oaks (195.2), Lake Shastina (196.3), Morgan Hill (195.1), La Verne (197.3). 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
Fremont sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 195.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fremont ranks 336 of 458 — above 122 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -41.3% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 7.8% of the 5,673 Part I offenses reported in Fremont for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 9.4 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 166.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 195.7 in 2024 (+17.5%). The highest observed value was 220.1 in 2023 and the lowest 166.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Fremont'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.
Fremont's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 78.1 Census sq mi, Fremont logged 67 property and 5.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Fremont leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,948.
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (78.1 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
-20%
2909.3 → 2327.6/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-11.1%
220.1 → 195.7/100K
Property offenses lead Fremont's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
5,233
2327.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
3,248
1444.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
1,214
540
-
Burglary
771
342.9
-
Arson
41
18.2
-
Violent Crime
440
195.7
352
Aggravated Assault
253
112.5
-
Robbery
145
64.5
-
Rape
36
16
-
Murder
6
2.7
-
Fremont Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Fremont property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Fremont Police Department
Reporting agency for Fremont NIBRS-participating
Fremont Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Fremont's 5,673 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.
Similar-Size Cities in California
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Fremont at 195.7/100K violent and 2,327.6/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Fremont reported 440 violent crimes and 5,233 property crimes, for a total of 5,673 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Fremont?
From 2023 to 2024, Fremont's violent crime rate decreased by 11.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 20%.
What is the most common crime in Fremont?
The most common crime type in Fremont is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.3% of all reported crimes (3,248 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Fremont'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Fremont, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.