Madera, CA has a C safety grade (51/100) with a violent crime rate of 394 per 100,000, 12% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 68,607 residents, Madera 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
Madera, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 12% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Madera, CA shows violent crime at 393.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,177.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 12% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Madera's 393.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Colton (393.2), Hermosa Beach (393.2), Oakdale (395.9), Burbank (390.6). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 25.0% of the 1,078 Part I offenses reported in Madera 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 467.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 393.5 in 2024 (-15.8%). The highest observed value was 588.1 in 2023 and the lowest 393.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 393.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Madera ranks 194 of 458 — above 264 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +19.8% 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.
Property counts dominate Madera'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 19.7 Census sq mi, Madera logged 41 property and 13.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Madera leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,290.
Violent offenses are 25% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Madera offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (19.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 808 | 1177.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 549 | 800.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 189 | 275.5 |
| Burglary | 70 | 102 |
| Arson | 52 | 75.8 |
| Violent Crime | 270 | 393.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 184 | 268.2 |
| Robbery | 51 | 74.3 |
| Rape | 33 | 48.1 |
| Murder | 2 | 2.9 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 66,351 | 467.2 | 1746.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 67,215 | 425.5 | 1480.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 69,395 | 458.2 | 1658.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 68,862 | 588.1 | 1254.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 68,607 | 393.5 | 1177.7 |
Madera Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Madera's 1,078 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
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 Madera in population. Their populations run from 66,593 to 71,689, against 68,607 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Madera sits at 393.5/100K violent (grade C); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Madera at 393.5/100K violent and 1,177.7/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
393.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,177.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-33.1% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Madera reported 270 violent crimes and 808 property crimes, for a total of 1,078 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Madera's violent crime rate decreased by 33.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.1%.
The most common crime type in Madera is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.9% of all reported crimes (549 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Madera'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 Madera's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Madera, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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