Hesperia, CA has a D safety grade (36/100) with a violent crime rate of 520 per 100,000, 48% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Hesperia, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 100,850 residents, Hesperia 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.
Hesperia, CA carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 48% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hesperia, CA shows violent crime at 519.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,425.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 48% 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
519.6/100K violent
1425.9/100K property
+48% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hesperia, CA
Comparable rate records
Hesperia's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hesperia's 519.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Corcoran (522.2), Apple Valley (516.3), Mammoth Lakes (516.0), Salinas (524.5). 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 39.8% of reported property offenses in Hesperia, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (324) and motor vehicle theft (541). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
Hesperia sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 519.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hesperia ranks 116 of 458 — above 342 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +58.2% 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 26.7% of the 1,962 Part I offenses reported in Hesperia for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 9.6 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 569.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 519.6 in 2024 (-8.8%). The highest observed value was 598.5 in 2022 and the lowest 184.0 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Hesperia'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.
Hesperia's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 72.7 Census sq mi, Hesperia logged 19.8 property and 7.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hesperia's 8 active offense types stay diversified (mix index 2,304); larceny-theft still leads at 29%.
Violent offenses are 27% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (72.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+182.4%
184 → 519.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
+67.8%
849.9 → 1425.9/100K
Property offenses lead Hesperia's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
1,438
1425.9
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
573
568.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
541
536.4
-
Burglary
324
321.3
-
Arson
25
24.8
-
Violent Crime
524
519.6
476.8
Aggravated Assault
388
384.7
-
Robbery
91
90.2
-
Rape
37
36.7
-
Murder
8
7.9
-
Hesperia 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.
Hesperia property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Hesperia Police Department
Reporting agency for Hesperia Summary Reporting (SRS)
Hesperia Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hesperia's 1,962 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Cities in California
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Hesperia at 519.6/100K violent and 1,425.9/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Hesperia reported 524 violent crimes and 1,438 property crimes, for a total of 1,962 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Hesperia?
From 2023 to 2024, Hesperia's violent crime rate increased by 182.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 67.8%.
What is the most common crime in Hesperia?
The most common crime type in Hesperia is larceny-theft, accounting for 29.2% of all reported crimes (573 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Hesperia'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 Hesperia, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.