Irwindale, CA has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 2334 per 100,000, 563% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Irwindale's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,414). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to CA and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Irwindale, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 563% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Irwindale, CA shows violent crime at 2,333.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 21,075 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 563% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1173.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 2333.8 in 2024 (+98.9%). The highest observed value was 2772.1 in 2021 and the lowest 1173.2 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 2333.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Irwindale ranks 3 of 458 — above 455 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +610.5% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Irwindale's 2333.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Oakland (1925.3), Sand City (1823.7), Nevada City (1753.8), Colma (1596.5). 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
Larceny-theft is 39.6% of reported property offenses in Irwindale, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (135) and motor vehicle theft (45). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 10.0% of the 331 Part I offenses reported in Irwindale for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 7.1 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 Irwindale'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 small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 8.8 Census sq mi, Irwindale logged 33.8 property and 3.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Irwindale leans on burglary at 41% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,177.
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Irwindale offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8.8 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 | 298 | 21075 |
| Burglary | 135 | 9547.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 118 | 8345.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 45 | 3182.5 |
| Arson | 2 | 141.4 |
| Violent Crime | 33 | 2333.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 24 | 1697.3 |
| Robbery | 7 | 495 |
| Murder | 2 | 141.4 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 1,449 | 1173.2 | 12698.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,479 | 2772.1 | 19134.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,410 | 1773 | 20567.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,389 | 2015.8 | 16702.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,414 | 2333.8 | 21075 |
Irwindale Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Irwindale's 331 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 Irwindale in population. Their populations run from 882 to 1,667, against 1,414 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Irwindale sits at 2,333.8/100K violent (grade F); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Irwindale reported 33 violent crimes and 298 property crimes, for a total of 331 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Irwindale's violent crime rate increased by 15.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 26.2%.
The most common crime type in Irwindale is burglary, accounting for 40.8% of all reported crimes (135 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Irwindale's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Irwindale's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Irwindale, 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. Irwindale is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (1,414 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.