Gilroy, CA has a D safety grade (35/100) with a violent crime rate of 461 per 100,000, 31% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Gilroy, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 57,877 residents, Gilroy 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.
Gilroy, CA carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 31% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Gilroy, CA shows violent crime at 461.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,163.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 31% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
461.3/100K violent
2163.2/100K property
+31% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Gilroy, CA
Comparable rate records
Gilroy's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Gilroy's 461.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pittsburg (460.2), Oceanside (458.7), South El Monte (466.6), Banning (467.1). 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
Gilroy sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 461.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Gilroy ranks 155 of 458 — above 303 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +40.4% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 431.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 461.3 in 2024 (+6.9%). The highest observed value was 554.7 in 2023 and the lowest 431.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Gilroy'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.
Gilroy's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 16.5 Census sq mi, Gilroy logged 75.7 property and 16.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Gilroy leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,769.
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (16.5 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
-27.5%
2984.4 → 2163.2/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-16.8%
554.7 → 461.3/100K
Property offenses lead Gilroy's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,252
2163.2
1711
Larceny-Theft
871
1504.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
233
402.6
-
Burglary
148
255.7
-
Arson
28
48.4
-
Violent Crime
267
461.3
352
Aggravated Assault
169
292
-
Robbery
66
114
-
Rape
32
55.3
-
Murder
0
0
-
Gilroy 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.
Gilroy 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
Gilroy Police Department
Reporting agency for Gilroy NIBRS-participating
Gilroy Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Gilroy's 1,519 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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Gilroy at 461.3/100K violent and 2,163.2/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Gilroy reported 267 violent crimes and 1,252 property crimes, for a total of 1,519 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Gilroy?
From 2023 to 2024, Gilroy's violent crime rate decreased by 16.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 27.5%.
What is the most common crime in Gilroy?
The most common crime type in Gilroy is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.3% of all reported crimes (871 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Gilroy'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 Gilroy, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.