Lakeport, CA has a F safety grade (14/100) with a violent crime rate of 1180 per 100,000, 235% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Lakeport is a small municipal reporter (5,170 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with CA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Lakeport, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 235% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lakeport, CA shows violent crime at 1,179.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,818.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 235% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F 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 576.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1179.9 in 2024 (+104.9%). The highest observed value was 1179.9 in 2024 and the lowest 40.1 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 1179.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lakeport ranks 15 of 458 — above 443 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +259.2% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 39.4% of the 155 Part I offenses reported in Lakeport for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 22.3 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 Lakeport's 1179.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Stockton (1145.8), Emeryville (1231.2), Barstow (1108.1), Compton (1271.7). 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.
Property counts dominate Lakeport'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.
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 3.1 Census sq mi, Lakeport logged 30.7 property and 19.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lakeport leans on larceny-theft at 38% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,891.
Violent offenses are 39% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Lakeport offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.1 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 | 94 | 1818.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 59 | 1141.2 |
| Burglary | 19 | 367.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 16 | 309.5 |
| Arson | 2 | 38.7 |
| Violent Crime | 61 | 1179.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 53 | 1025.1 |
| Rape | 5 | 96.7 |
| Robbery | 3 | 58 |
| 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 | 5,035 | 576 | 2423 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 4,985 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,171 | 870.2 | 2649.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,023 | 457.9 | 1433.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,170 | 1179.9 | 1818.2 |
Lakeport Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lakeport's 155 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 Lakeport in population. Their populations run from 4,935 to 5,398, against 5,170 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lakeport sits at 1,179.9/100K violent (grade F); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Lakeport reported 61 violent crimes and 94 property crimes, for a total of 155 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lakeport's violent crime rate increased by 157.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 26.8%.
The most common crime type in Lakeport is larceny-theft, accounting for 38.1% of all reported crimes (59 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Lakeport 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 Lakeport's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lakeport, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Lakeport is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (5,170 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.