King City, CA has a B safety grade (65/100) with a violent crime rate of 291 per 100,000, 17% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
King City (14,112 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
King City, CA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 17% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, King City, CA shows violent crime at 290.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 687.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 17% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 147.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 290.5 in 2024 (+96.6%). The highest observed value was 480.8 in 2022 and the lowest 147.7 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 King City's 290.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Marina (291.0), Ione (289.3), Napa (288.7), Vacaville (293.2). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 29.7% of the 138 Part I offenses reported in King City for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 12.6 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 is 78.4% of reported property offenses in King City, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (11) and motor vehicle theft (10). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 290.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, King City ranks 262 of 458 — above 196 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -12.8% 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.
Property counts dominate King City'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 3.8 Census sq mi, King City logged 25.5 property and 10.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
King City leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,669.
Violent offenses are 30% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
King City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.8 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 | 97 | 687.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 76 | 538.5 |
| Burglary | 11 | 77.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 10 | 70.9 |
| Arson | 5 | 35.4 |
| Violent Crime | 41 | 290.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 30 | 212.6 |
| Rape | 7 | 49.6 |
| Robbery | 4 | 28.3 |
| 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 | 14,214 | 147.7 | 1758.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 14,080 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 13,518 | 480.8 | 1412.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 13,936 | 322.9 | 1069.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 14,112 | 290.5 | 687.4 |
King City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind King City's 138 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to King City in population. Their populations run from 13,618 to 14,649, against 14,112 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
King City sits at 290.5/100K violent (grade B); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
King City at 290.5/100K violent and 687.4/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
290.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
687.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, King City reported 41 violent crimes and 97 property crimes, for a total of 138 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, King City's violent crime rate decreased by 10%, and the property crime rate decreased by 35.7%.
The most common crime type in King City is larceny-theft, accounting for 55.1% of all reported crimes (76 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: King City 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 King City's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 King City, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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