Garden Grove, CA has a C safety grade (57/100) with a violent crime rate of 277 per 100,000, 21% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Garden Grove, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 167,041 residents, Garden Grove 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.
Garden Grove, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 21% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Garden Grove, CA shows violent crime at 276.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,758.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 21% below 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.
C safety grade
276.6/100K violent
1758.8/100K property
-21% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Garden Grove, CA
Comparable rate records
Garden Grove's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Garden Grove's 276.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Martinez (276.8), Woodland (274.6), Patterson (274.6), Monterey Park (274.1). 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
Garden Grove sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 276.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Garden Grove ranks 275 of 458 — above 183 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -17.0% 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 13.6% of the 3,400 Part I offenses reported in Garden Grove for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 3.5 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 298.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 276.6 in 2024 (-7.2%). The highest observed value was 317.5 in 2022 and the lowest 39.7 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Garden Grove'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.
Garden Grove's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 18 Census sq mi, Garden Grove logged 163.6 property and 25.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Garden Grove leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,849.
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (18 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
-13.6%
2036.7 → 1758.8/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+7.8%
256.5 → 276.6/100K
Property offenses lead Garden Grove's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
2,938
1758.8
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
1,963
1175.2
-
Burglary
514
307.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
461
276
-
Arson
24
14.4
-
Violent Crime
462
276.6
476.8
Aggravated Assault
326
195.2
-
Robbery
110
65.9
-
Rape
25
15
-
Murder
1
0.6
-
Garden Grove 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.
Garden Grove 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
Garden Grove Police Department
Reporting agency for Garden Grove NIBRS-participating
Garden Grove Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Garden Grove's 3,400 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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Garden Grove at 276.6/100K violent and 1,758.8/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Garden Grove reported 462 violent crimes and 2,938 property crimes, for a total of 3,400 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Garden Grove?
From 2023 to 2024, Garden Grove's violent crime rate increased by 7.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 13.6%.
What is the most common crime in Garden Grove?
The most common crime type in Garden Grove is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.7% of all reported crimes (1,963 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Garden Grove'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 Garden Grove, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.