Huntington Beach, CA has a B safety grade (62/100) with a violent crime rate of 207 per 100,000, 41% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Huntington Beach, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 190,081 residents, Huntington Beach 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.
Huntington Beach, CA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 41% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Huntington Beach, CA shows violent crime at 207.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,989.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 41% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
207.3/100K violent
1989.2/100K property
-41% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Huntington Beach, CA
Comparable rate records
Huntington Beach's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Huntington Beach's 207.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Sierra Madre (208.6), La Palma (208.7), Goleta (205.3), Indian Wells (204.5). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Huntington Beach sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 207.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Huntington Beach ranks 327 of 458 — above 131 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -37.8% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 9.4% of the 4,175 Part I offenses reported in Huntington Beach for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 7.7 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 82.7% of reported property offenses in Huntington Beach, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (382) and motor vehicle theft (274). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 246.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 207.3 in 2024 (-15.9%). The highest observed value was 253.8 in 2022 and the lowest 207.3 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Huntington 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.
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.
Huntington Beach's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 27 Census sq mi, Huntington Beach logged 140.1 property and 14.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Huntington Beach's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 4,175 offenses; mix index 5,767).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (27 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
-4.2%
216.3 → 207.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
-3.1%
2053.1 → 1989.2/100K
Property offenses lead Huntington Beach's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
3,781
1989.2
1711
Larceny-Theft
3,125
1644
-
Burglary
382
201
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
274
144.1
-
Arson
31
16.3
-
Violent Crime
394
207.3
352
Aggravated Assault
226
118.9
-
Robbery
97
51
-
Rape
66
34.7
-
Murder
5
2.6
-
Huntington Beach 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.
Huntington Beach 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
Huntington Beach Police Department
Reporting agency for Huntington Beach Summary Reporting (SRS)
Huntington Beach Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Huntington Beach's 4,175 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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Huntington Beach at 207.3/100K violent and 1,989.2/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Huntington Beach?
In 2024, Huntington Beach reported 394 violent crimes and 3,781 property crimes, for a total of 4,175 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Huntington Beach?
From 2023 to 2024, Huntington Beach's violent crime rate decreased by 4.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 3.1%.
What is the most common crime in Huntington Beach?
The most common crime type in Huntington Beach is larceny-theft, accounting for 74.9% of all reported crimes (3,125 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Huntington Beach'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 Huntington Beach, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.