Lake Havasu City, AZ has a C safety grade (52/100) with a violent crime rate of 356 per 100,000, 1% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 59,898 residents, Lake Havasu City is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against AZ and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Lake Havasu City, AZ carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 1% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lake Havasu City, AZ shows violent crime at 355.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,394 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 1% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 192.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 355.6 in 2024 (+85.2%). The highest observed value was 355.6 in 2024 and the lowest 192.0 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 Lake Havasu City's 355.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Parker (353.7), Avondale (369.8), Prescott (335.1), El Mirage (382.5). 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 355.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lake Havasu City ranks 24 of 64 — above 40 of the 63 other Arizona cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +39.6% against the cohort median of 254.7. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 20.3% of the 1,048 Part I offenses reported in Lake Havasu City for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Arizona cities — a gap of 6.0 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 Lake Havasu 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.
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.
Across 46.3 Census sq mi, Lake Havasu City logged 18 property and 4.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lake Havasu City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 1,048 offenses; mix index 4,236).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Lake Havasu City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (46.3 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 | 835 | 1394 |
| Larceny-Theft | 641 | 1070.2 |
| Burglary | 140 | 233.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 54 | 90.2 |
| Arson | 2 | 3.3 |
| Violent Crime | 213 | 355.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 176 | 293.8 |
| Rape | 29 | 48.4 |
| Robbery | 8 | 13.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 56,243 | 192 | 1429.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 57,735 | 232.1 | 1328.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 59,166 | 277.2 | 1372.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 59,720 | 286.3 | 1262.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 59,898 | 355.6 | 1394 |
Lake Havasu City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lake Havasu City's 1,048 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 Arizona cities closest to Lake Havasu City in population. Their populations run from 43,923 to 75,614, against 59,898 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lake Havasu City sits at 355.6/100K violent (grade C); the Arizona cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Lake Havasu City at 355.6/100K violent and 1,394/100K property - matched below outside Arizona (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
355.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,394/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+24.2% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Lake Havasu City reported 213 violent crimes and 835 property crimes, for a total of 1,048 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lake Havasu City's violent crime rate increased by 24.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 10.4%.
The most common crime type in Lake Havasu City is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.2% of all reported crimes (641 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Lake Havasu City'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.
Large-city rate methodology for how Lake Havasu City's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lake Havasu City, AZ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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