Lindsay, CA has a C safety grade (43/100) with a violent crime rate of 450 per 100,000, 28% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Lindsay (12,449 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
Lindsay, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 28% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lindsay, CA shows violent crime at 449.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,453.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 28% 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 285.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 449.8 in 2024 (+57.6%). The highest observed value was 512.8 in 2023 and the lowest 285.3 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 Lindsay's 449.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lakewood (453.0), Fullerton (455.3), Lemon Grove (442.7), Gridley (442.5). 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 449.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lindsay ranks 160 of 458 — above 298 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +36.9% 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 23.6% of the 237 Part I offenses reported in Lindsay for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 6.5 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 Lindsay'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 2.9 Census sq mi, Lindsay logged 62.1 property and 19.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lindsay leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,074.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Lindsay offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.9 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 | 181 | 1453.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 116 | 931.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 39 | 313.3 |
| Burglary | 26 | 208.9 |
| Arson | 3 | 24.1 |
| Violent Crime | 56 | 449.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 38 | 305.2 |
| Robbery | 11 | 88.4 |
| Rape | 6 | 48.2 |
| Murder | 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 | 13,668 | 285.3 | 1660.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 13,018 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,608 | 341.1 | 1776.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 12,481 | 512.8 | 2195.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,449 | 449.8 | 1453.9 |
Lindsay Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lindsay's 237 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 Lindsay in population. Their populations run from 12,216 to 12,692, against 12,449 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lindsay sits at 449.8/100K violent (grade C); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Lindsay at 449.8/100K violent and 1,453.9/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
449.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,453.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Lindsay reported 56 violent crimes and 181 property crimes, for a total of 237 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lindsay's violent crime rate decreased by 12.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 33.8%.
The most common crime type in Lindsay is larceny-theft, accounting for 48.9% of all reported crimes (116 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Lindsay 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 Lindsay's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lindsay, 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. Lindsay is scored in the mid-size municipal band (12,449 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.