Grover Beach, CA has a C safety grade (58/100) with a violent crime rate of 320 per 100,000, 9% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Grover Beach (12,496 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then CA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Grover Beach, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 9% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Grover Beach, CA shows violent crime at 320.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,160.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 9% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 177.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 320.1 in 2024 (+79.9%). The highest observed value was 329.8 in 2021 and the lowest 177.9 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 Grover Beach's 320.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Alameda (317.0), Palm Desert (323.7), Vista (316.4), Monrovia (316.2). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 85.5% of reported property offenses in Grover Beach, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (16) and motor vehicle theft (5). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 21.6% of the 185 Part I offenses reported in Grover Beach for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 4.5 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 320.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Grover Beach ranks 236 of 458 — above 222 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -3.9% 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 counts dominate Grover Beach'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 2.3 Census sq mi, Grover Beach logged 62.7 property and 17.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Grover Beach's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 185 offenses; mix index 4,868).
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Grover Beach offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.3 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 | 145 | 1160.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 124 | 992.3 |
| Burglary | 16 | 128 |
| Arson | 6 | 48 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5 | 40 |
| Violent Crime | 40 | 320.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 30 | 240.1 |
| Rape | 8 | 64 |
| Robbery | 2 | 16 |
| 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 | 13,491 | 177.9 | 1504.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 13,340 | 329.8 | 2421.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,728 | 267.1 | 2278.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 12,581 | 198.7 | 1581.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,496 | 320.1 | 1160.4 |
Grover Beach Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Grover Beach's 185 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 Grover Beach in population. Their populations run from 12,216 to 12,692, against 12,496 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Grover Beach sits at 320.1/100K violent (grade C); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Grover Beach at 320.1/100K violent and 1,160.4/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
320.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,160.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Grover Beach reported 40 violent crimes and 145 property crimes, for a total of 185 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Grover Beach's violent crime rate increased by 61.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 26.6%.
The most common crime type in Grover Beach is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.0% of all reported crimes (124 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Grover Beach figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Grover Beach's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Grover Beach, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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