La Verne, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 44% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, La Verne, CA shows violent crime at 197.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,388.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 44% 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.
C safety grade
197.3/100K violent
2388.5/100K property
-44% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for La Verne, CA
Comparable rate records
La Verne's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to La Verne's 197.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Arroyo Grande (198.0), Lake Shastina (196.3), Fremont (195.7), Carlsbad (199.1). 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 137.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 197.3 in 2024 (+43.8%). The highest observed value was 214.5 in 2023 and the lowest 137.2 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
La Verne sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 197.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, La Verne ranks 334 of 458 — above 124 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -40.8% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 7.6% of the 760 Part I offenses reported in La Verne for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 9.5 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 dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 80.5% of reported property offenses in La Verne, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (107) and motor vehicle theft (30). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate La Verne'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.
La Verne's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 8.4 Census sq mi, La Verne logged 83.4 property and 6.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
La Verne's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 760 offenses; mix index 5,766).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-8%
214.5 → 197.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
-7.8%
2590.9 → 2388.5/100K
Property offenses lead La Verne's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
702
2388.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
565
1922.4
-
Burglary
107
364.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
30
102.1
-
Arson
3
10.2
-
Violent Crime
58
197.3
352
Aggravated Assault
33
112.3
-
Robbery
17
57.8
-
Rape
8
27.2
-
Murder
0
0
-
La Verne Crime Trend (2020-2024)
La Verne 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 Verne Police Department
Reporting agency for La Verne NIBRS-participating
La Verne Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind La Verne's 760 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to La Verne in population. Their populations run from 28,792 to 29,895, against 29,391 here. Or use our
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La Verne at 197.3/100K violent and 2,388.5/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, La Verne reported 58 violent crimes and 702 property crimes, for a total of 760 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in La Verne?
From 2023 to 2024, La Verne's violent crime rate decreased by 8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.8%.
What is the most common crime in La Verne?
The most common crime type in La Verne is larceny-theft, accounting for 74.3% of all reported crimes (565 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: La Verne 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 La Verne, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.