Livermore, CA has a C safety grade (56/100) with a violent crime rate of 235 per 100,000, 33% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Livermore, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 81,316 residents, Livermore 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.
Livermore, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 33% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Livermore, CA shows violent crime at 234.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,325.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 33% 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.
C safety grade
234.9/100K violent
2325.5/100K property
-33% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Livermore, CA
Comparable rate records
Livermore's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Livermore's 234.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pleasant Hill (235.5), Laguna Hills (234.2), Windsor (233.8), West Covina (239.3). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 179.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 234.9 in 2024 (+30.6%). The highest observed value was 238.1 in 2023 and the lowest 179.8 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Livermore sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 234.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Livermore ranks 306 of 458 — above 152 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -29.5% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 9.2% of the 2,082 Part I offenses reported in Livermore for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 7.9 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 Livermore'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.
Livermore's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 26.6 Census sq mi, Livermore logged 71.2 property and 7.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Livermore's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 2,082 offenses; mix index 4,549).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (26.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+19.1%
1953 → 2325.5/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-1.3%
238.1 → 234.9/100K
Property offenses lead Livermore's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,891
2325.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,342
1650.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
313
384.9
-
Burglary
236
290.2
-
Arson
18
22.1
-
Violent Crime
191
234.9
352
Aggravated Assault
121
148.8
-
Robbery
40
49.2
-
Rape
27
33.2
-
Murder
3
3.7
-
Livermore Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Livermore property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Livermore Police Department
Reporting agency for Livermore NIBRS-participating
Livermore Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Livermore's 2,082 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.
Similar-Size Cities in California
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Livermore at 234.9/100K violent and 2,325.5/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Livermore reported 191 violent crimes and 1,891 property crimes, for a total of 2,082 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Livermore?
From 2023 to 2024, Livermore's violent crime rate decreased by 1.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 19.1%.
What is the most common crime in Livermore?
The most common crime type in Livermore is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.5% of all reported crimes (1,342 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Livermore'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Livermore, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.