Lake Shastina, CA has a A safety grade (78/100) with a violent crime rate of 196 per 100,000, 44% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Lake Shastina is a small municipal reporter (2,547 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with CA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Lake Shastina, CA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 44% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lake Shastina, CA shows violent crime at 196.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 314.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 44% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Lake Shastina reported 5 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,547. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 38.5% of the 13 Part I offenses reported in Lake Shastina for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 21.4 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lake Shastina's 196.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Fremont (195.7), La Verne (197.3), Del Rey Oaks (195.2), Morgan Hill (195.1). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 196.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lake Shastina ranks 335 of 458 — above 123 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -41.1% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 195.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 196.3 in 2024 (+0.5%). The highest observed value was 197.5 in 2023 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Lake Shastina'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.
Based on 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,547. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 4 Census sq mi, Lake Shastina logged 2 property and 1.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lake Shastina leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,136.
Violent offenses are 38% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Lake Shastina offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 8 | 314.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 6 | 235.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 78.5 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 5 | 196.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 117.8 |
| Robbery | 2 | 78.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 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 | 2,561 | 195.2 | 390.5 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 2,544 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,537 | 118.2 | 512.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,532 | 197.5 | 355.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,547 | 196.3 | 314.1 |
Lake Shastina Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lake Shastina's 13 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 Lake Shastina in population. Their populations run from 1,970 to 3,070, against 2,547 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Lake Shastina reported 5 violent crimes and 8 property crimes, for a total of 13 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lake Shastina's violent crime rate decreased by 0.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.6%.
The most common crime type in Lake Shastina is larceny-theft, accounting for 46.2% of all reported crimes (6 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Lake Shastina is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Lake Shastina's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lake Shastina, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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