Long Beach, CA has a F safety grade (3/100) with a violent crime rate of 676 per 100,000, 92% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
Long Beach, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 444,232 residents, Long Beach is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against CA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Long Beach, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 92% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Long Beach, CA shows violent crime at 676.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,478.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 92% 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.
F safety grade
676.4/100K violent
3478.8/100K property
+92% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Long Beach, CA
Position in the state cohort
Long Beach reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities
At 676.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Long Beach ranks 63 of 458 — above 395 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +105.9% 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.
Comparable rate records
Long Beach's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Long Beach's 676.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Chowchilla (676.8), Ridgecrest (675.9), Inglewood (674.6), Culver City (667.3). 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 51.6% of reported property offenses in Long Beach, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (3,131) and motor vehicle theft (4,346). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Long Beach'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 very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Long Beach's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 50.7 Census sq mi, Long Beach logged 305 property and 59.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Long Beach leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,833.
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (50.7 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 offenses lead Long Beach's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs CA
Property Crime
15,454
3478.8
1711
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
7,977
1795.7
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
4,346
978.3
-
-
Burglary
3,131
704.8
-
-
Arson
136
30.6
-
-
Violent Crime
3,005
676.4
352
476.8
Aggravated Assault
1,779
400.5
-
-
Robbery
989
222.6
-
-
Rape
200
45
-
-
Murder
37
8.3
-
-
Long Beach Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Long Beach Police Department
Reporting agency for Long Beach NIBRS-participating
Long Beach Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Long Beach's 18,459 reported offenses (1-year span 2024-2024).
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.
Similar-Size Cities in California
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Long Beach at 676.4/100K violent and 3,478.8/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Long Beach reported 3,005 violent crimes and 15,454 property crimes, for a total of 18,459 reported offenses.
What is the most common crime in Long Beach?
The most common crime type in Long Beach is larceny-theft, accounting for 43.2% of all reported crimes (7,977 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Long Beach'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 (very 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 Long Beach, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.