Indian Wells, CA has a B safety grade (67/100) with a violent crime rate of 205 per 100,000, 42% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Indian Wells is a small municipal reporter (4,889 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with CA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Indian Wells, CA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 42% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Indian Wells, CA shows violent crime at 204.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,411.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 42% 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.
Small-count caution
Indian Wells reported 10 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,889. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Indian Wells's 204.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Beaumont (204.0), Goleta (205.3), Cotati (203.3), Huntington Beach (207.3). 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 204.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Indian Wells ranks 329 of 458 — above 129 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -38.6% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 235.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 204.5 in 2024 (-13.0%). The highest observed value was 235.2 in 2020 and the lowest 163.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 12.7% of the 79 Part I offenses reported in Indian Wells 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.
Property counts dominate Indian Wells'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.
Based on 10 reported violent incidents in a population of 4,889. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 14.3 Census sq mi, Indian Wells logged 4.8 property and 0.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Indian Wells's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 79 offenses; mix index 4,446).
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Indian Wells offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (14.3 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 | 69 | 1411.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 50 | 1022.7 |
| Burglary | 14 | 286.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5 | 102.3 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 10 | 204.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 7 | 143.2 |
| Rape | 2 | 40.9 |
| Robbery | 1 | 20.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 5,527 | 235.2 | 2008.3 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 5,604 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,914 | 223.9 | 2889.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,903 | 163.2 | 2304.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,889 | 204.5 | 1411.3 |
Indian Wells Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Indian Wells's 79 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Indian Wells in population. Their populations run from 4,790 to 5,177, against 4,889 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Indian Wells sits at 204.5/100K violent (grade B); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Indian Wells reported 10 violent crimes and 69 property crimes, for a total of 79 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Indian Wells's violent crime rate increased by 25.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 38.8%.
The most common crime type in Indian Wells is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.3% of all reported crimes (50 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Indian Wells is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Indian Wells's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Indian Wells, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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