Lathrop, CA has a C safety grade (57/100) with a violent crime rate of 303 per 100,000, 14% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Lathrop (44,277 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then CA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Lathrop, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 14% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lathrop, CA shows violent crime at 302.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,420.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 14% 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.
2022–2024 direction
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 185.9 per 100,000 in 2022 to 302.6 in 2024 (+62.8%). The highest observed value was 375.1 in 2023 and the lowest 185.9 in 2022. 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 Lathrop's 302.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Fortuna (302.9), Tracy (301.4), Westmorland (304.6), South San Francisco (300.5). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 79.2% of reported property offenses in Lathrop, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (52) and motor vehicle theft (79). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 302.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lathrop ranks 248 of 458 — above 210 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -9.2% 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.
Property counts dominate Lathrop'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.
Across 19.8 Census sq mi, Lathrop logged 31.7 property and 6.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lathrop's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 763 offenses; mix index 4,577).
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Lathrop offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (19.8 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 | 629 | 1420.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 498 | 1124.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 79 | 178.4 |
| Burglary | 52 | 117.4 |
| Arson | 8 | 18.1 |
| Violent Crime | 134 | 302.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 92 | 207.8 |
| Robbery | 29 | 65.5 |
| Rape | 12 | 27.1 |
| Murder | 1 | 2.3 |
Lead series · rose across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2022-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Comparable | 32,278 | 185.9 | 876.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 36,256 | 375.1 | 1770.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 44,277 | 302.6 | 1420.6 |
Lathrop Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lathrop's 763 reported offenses (3-year span 2022-2024).
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 California cities closest to Lathrop in population. Their populations run from 43,550 to 45,633, against 44,277 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lathrop sits at 302.6/100K violent (grade C); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Lathrop at 302.6/100K violent and 1,420.6/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
302.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,420.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-19.3% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Lathrop reported 134 violent crimes and 629 property crimes, for a total of 763 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lathrop's violent crime rate decreased by 19.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 19.8%.
The most common crime type in Lathrop is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.3% of all reported crimes (498 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Lathrop 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Lathrop's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lathrop, 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. Lathrop is scored in the mid-size municipal band (44,277 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.