Lincoln, CA has a A safety grade (86/100) with a violent crime rate of 96 per 100,000, 73% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 56,152 residents, Lincoln is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against CA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Lincoln, CA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 73% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lincoln, CA shows violent crime at 96.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 561 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 73% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 96.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lincoln ranks 419 of 458 — above 39 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -71.1% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lincoln's 96.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mill Valley (95.2), Eastvale (93.4), Moorpark (99.1), Hillsborough (93.2). 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 77.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 96.2 in 2024 (+23.7%). The highest observed value was 190.5 in 2022 and the lowest 10.1 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 87.6% of reported property offenses in Lincoln, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (20) and motor vehicle theft (19). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Lincoln'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 24.5 Census sq mi, Lincoln logged 12.8 property and 2.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lincoln's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 369 offenses; mix index 5,754).
Violent offenses are only 15% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Lincoln offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (24.5 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 | 315 | 561 |
| Larceny-Theft | 276 | 491.5 |
| Burglary | 20 | 35.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 19 | 33.8 |
| Arson | 5 | 8.9 |
| Violent Crime | 54 | 96.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 35 | 62.3 |
| Rape | 10 | 17.8 |
| Robbery | 8 | 14.2 |
| Murder | 1 | 1.8 |
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 | 48,887 | 77.7 | 1149.6 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 49,629 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 51,456 | 190.5 | 901.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 53,950 | 144.6 | 709.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 56,152 | 96.2 | 561 |
Lincoln Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lincoln's 369 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 Lincoln in population. Their populations run from 54,915 to 57,584, against 56,152 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lincoln sits at 96.2/100K violent (grade A); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Lincoln at 96.2/100K violent and 561/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
96.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
561/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-33.5% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Lincoln reported 54 violent crimes and 315 property crimes, for a total of 369 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lincoln's violent crime rate decreased by 33.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 21%.
The most common crime type in Lincoln is larceny-theft, accounting for 74.8% of all reported crimes (276 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Lincoln'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 Lincoln's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lincoln, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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