Kerman, CA has a C safety grade (54/100) with a violent crime rate of 329 per 100,000, 7% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Kerman (17,657 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then CA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Kerman, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 7% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kerman, CA shows violent crime at 328.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,523.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 7% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 168.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 328.5 in 2024 (+95.5%). The highest observed value was 515.2 in 2022 and the lowest 168.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Kerman's 328.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are El Centro (328.4), Perris (327.6), Santa Paula (326.7), American Canyon (325.5). 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
At 328.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kerman ranks 230 of 458 — above 228 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -1.4% 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.
Property counts dominate Kerman'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 3.3 Census sq mi, Kerman logged 80.4 property and 17.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Kerman leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,623.
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Kerman offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.3 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 | 269 | 1523.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 179 | 1013.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 57 | 322.8 |
| Burglary | 33 | 186.9 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 58 | 328.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 48 | 271.8 |
| Robbery | 7 | 39.6 |
| Rape | 3 | 17 |
| 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 · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 15,478 | 168 | 1789.6 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 15,523 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 16,304 | 515.2 | 1515 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 16,293 | 448 | 1454.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 17,657 | 328.5 | 1523.5 |
Kerman Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Kerman's 327 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 Kerman in population. Their populations run from 17,132 to 18,312, against 17,657 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Kerman sits at 328.5/100K violent (grade C); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Kerman at 328.5/100K violent and 1,523.5/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
328.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,523.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Kerman reported 58 violent crimes and 269 property crimes, for a total of 327 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Kerman's violent crime rate decreased by 26.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 4.7%.
The most common crime type in Kerman is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.7% of all reported crimes (179 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Kerman figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Kerman's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Kerman, 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. Kerman is scored in the mid-size municipal band (17,657 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.