Inglewood, CA has a F safety grade (3/100) with a violent crime rate of 675 per 100,000, 92% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Inglewood, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 101,399 residents, Inglewood 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.
Inglewood, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 92% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Inglewood, CA shows violent crime at 674.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,614.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 92% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
674.6/100K violent
3614.4/100K property
+92% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Inglewood, CA
Comparable rate records
Inglewood's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Inglewood's 674.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Ridgecrest (675.9), Long Beach (676.4), Chowchilla (676.8), Culver City (667.3). 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
Inglewood reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities
At 674.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Inglewood ranks 65 of 458 — above 393 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +105.4% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 628.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 674.6 in 2024 (+7.3%). The highest observed value was 777.1 in 2023 and the lowest 628.8 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Inglewood'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.
Inglewood's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 9.1 Census sq mi, Inglewood logged 404.2 property and 75.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Inglewood leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,832.
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.1 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
-13.2%
777.1 → 674.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-5%
3802.9 → 3614.4/100K
Property offenses lead Inglewood's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs CA
Property Crime
3,665
3614.4
1711
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
2,486
2451.7
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
878
865.9
-
-
Burglary
301
296.8
-
-
Arson
26
25.6
-
-
Violent Crime
684
674.6
352
476.8
Aggravated Assault
363
358
-
-
Robbery
268
264.3
-
-
Rape
46
45.4
-
-
Murder
7
6.9
-
-
Inglewood 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.
Inglewood 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
Inglewood Police Department
Reporting agency for Inglewood NIBRS-participating
Inglewood Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Inglewood's 4,349 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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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Inglewood at 674.6/100K violent and 3,614.4/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Inglewood reported 684 violent crimes and 3,665 property crimes, for a total of 4,349 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Inglewood?
From 2023 to 2024, Inglewood's violent crime rate decreased by 13.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 5%.
What is the most common crime in Inglewood?
The most common crime type in Inglewood is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.2% of all reported crimes (2,486 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Inglewood'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 Inglewood, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.