Hermosa Beach, CA has a D safety grade (39/100) with a violent crime rate of 393 per 100,000, 12% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Hermosa Beach (18,312 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
Hermosa Beach, CA carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 12% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hermosa Beach, CA shows violent crime at 393.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,457.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 12% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 243.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 393.2 in 2024 (+61.5%). The highest observed value was 393.2 in 2024 and the lowest 243.5 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 Hermosa Beach's 393.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Colton (393.2), Madera (393.5), Burbank (390.6), Oakdale (395.9). 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
At 393.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hermosa Beach ranks 196 of 458 — above 262 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +19.7% 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 are 13.8% of the 522 Part I offenses reported in Hermosa Beach for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 3.3 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.
Property counts dominate Hermosa 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.
Hermosa Beach leans on larceny-theft at 59% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,987.
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Hermosa Beach offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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 | 450 | 2457.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 306 | 1671 |
| Burglary | 97 | 529.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 47 | 256.7 |
| Arson | 3 | 16.4 |
| Violent Crime | 72 | 393.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 57 | 311.3 |
| Robbery | 9 | 49.1 |
| Rape | 6 | 32.8 |
| 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 | 19,300 | 243.5 | 2466.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 18,734 | 277.6 | 2701 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 18,902 | 291 | 2893.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 18,644 | 284.3 | 2923.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 18,312 | 393.2 | 2457.4 |
Hermosa Beach Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hermosa Beach's 522 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 Hermosa Beach in population. Their populations run from 17,657 to 18,861, against 18,312 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Hermosa Beach sits at 393.2/100K violent (grade D); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Hermosa Beach at 393.2/100K violent and 2,457.4/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
393.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,457.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Hermosa Beach reported 72 violent crimes and 450 property crimes, for a total of 522 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Hermosa Beach's violent crime rate increased by 38.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 15.9%.
The most common crime type in Hermosa Beach is larceny-theft, accounting for 58.6% of all reported crimes (306 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hermosa 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 Hermosa Beach's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hermosa Beach, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Hermosa Beach is scored in the mid-size municipal band (18,312 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.