La Habra, CA has a C safety grade (45/100) with a violent crime rate of 363 per 100,000, 3% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
La Habra, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 60,335 residents, La Habra 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.
La Habra, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 3% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, La Habra, CA shows violent crime at 363 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,159.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 3% above 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.
C safety grade
363/100K violent
2159.6/100K property
+3% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for La Habra, CA
Comparable rate records
La Habra's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to La Habra's 363.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are San Fernando (362.5), Paso Robles (364.3), Ferndale (360.8), Rio Dell (365.5). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 257.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 363.0 in 2024 (+41.2%). The highest observed value was 422.0 in 2022 and the lowest 155.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 79.9% of reported property offenses in La Habra, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (117) and motor vehicle theft (145). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
La Habra sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 363.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, La Habra ranks 212 of 458 — above 246 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +10.5% 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.
Property counts dominate La Habra'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.
La Habra's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 7.6 Census sq mi, La Habra logged 172.3 property and 29 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
La Habra's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 1,522 offenses; mix index 4,928).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.6 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
+14.3%
317.5 → 363/100K
Property Crime Rate
+4.8%
2061 → 2159.6/100K
Property offenses lead La Habra's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,303
2159.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,041
1725.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
145
240.3
-
Burglary
117
193.9
-
Arson
6
9.9
-
Violent Crime
219
363
352
Aggravated Assault
141
233.7
-
Robbery
49
81.2
-
Rape
29
48.1
-
Murder
0
0
-
La Habra Crime Trend (2020-2024)
La Habra property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
La Habra Police Department
Reporting agency for La Habra NIBRS-participating
La Habra Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind La Habra's 1,522 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.
Similar-Size Cities in California
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La Habra at 363/100K violent and 2,159.6/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, La Habra reported 219 violent crimes and 1,303 property crimes, for a total of 1,522 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in La Habra?
From 2023 to 2024, La Habra's violent crime rate increased by 14.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 4.8%.
What is the most common crime in La Habra?
The most common crime type in La Habra is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.4% of all reported crimes (1,041 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: La Habra'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 La Habra, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.