Hemet, CA has a C safety grade (43/100) with a violent crime rate of 425 per 100,000, 21% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Hemet, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 93,212 residents, Hemet 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.
Hemet, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 21% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hemet, CA shows violent crime at 424.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,633.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 21% above 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
424.8/100K violent
1633.9/100K property
+21% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hemet, CA
Comparable rate records
Hemet's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hemet's 424.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are San Luis Obispo (424.4), Rancho Cordova (425.7), Yuba City (423.8), El Monte (423.2). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Hemet sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 424.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hemet ranks 170 of 458 — above 288 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +29.3% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 20.6% of the 1,919 Part I offenses reported in Hemet 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 403.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 424.8 in 2024 (+5.4%). The highest observed value was 484.4 in 2022 and the lowest 215.6 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Hemet'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.
Hemet's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 29.3 Census sq mi, Hemet logged 52 property and 13.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hemet leans on larceny-theft at 59% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,929.
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (29.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-19.7%
2035.9 → 1633.9/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-12%
482.9 → 424.8/100K
Property offenses lead Hemet's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
1,523
1633.9
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
1,135
1217.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
230
246.7
-
Burglary
158
169.5
-
Arson
8
8.6
-
Violent Crime
396
424.8
476.8
Aggravated Assault
267
286.4
-
Robbery
92
98.7
-
Rape
33
35.4
-
Murder
4
4.3
-
Hemet Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Hemet property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Hemet Police Department
Reporting agency for Hemet NIBRS-participating
Hemet Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hemet's 1,919 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.
Similar-Size Cities in California
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In 2024, Hemet reported 396 violent crimes and 1,523 property crimes, for a total of 1,919 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Hemet?
From 2023 to 2024, Hemet's violent crime rate decreased by 12%, and the property crime rate decreased by 19.7%.
What is the most common crime in Hemet?
The most common crime type in Hemet is larceny-theft, accounting for 59.1% of all reported crimes (1,135 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Hemet'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.