Maricopa, AZ has a B safety grade (70/100) with a violent crime rate of 225 per 100,000, 36% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 75,614 residents, Maricopa is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against AZ and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Maricopa, AZ carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 36% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Maricopa, AZ shows violent crime at 224.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 868.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 36% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 126.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 224.8 in 2024 (+78.4%). The highest observed value was 269.0 in 2021 and the lowest 126.0 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 Maricopa's 224.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Prescott Valley (225.0), Cottonwood (223.2), Kingman (221.1), Nogales (228.6). 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 20.6% of the 827 Part I offenses reported in Maricopa for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Arizona cities — a gap of 6.3 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 86.1% of reported property offenses in Maricopa, against a cohort median of 77.8%. The remainder is burglary (47) and motor vehicle theft (44). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 224.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Maricopa ranks 36 of 64 — above 28 of the 63 other Arizona cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -13.9% against the cohort median of 261.2. 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 Maricopa'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 42.5 Census sq mi, Maricopa logged 15.5 property and 4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Maricopa's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 827 offenses; mix index 5,115).
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Maricopa offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (42.5 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 | 657 | 868.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 566 | 748.5 |
| Burglary | 47 | 62.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 44 | 58.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 170 | 224.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 159 | 210.3 |
| Rape | 5 | 6.6 |
| Robbery | 4 | 5.3 |
| Murder | 2 | 2.6 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 53,165 | 126 | 1156.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 55,768 | 269 | 819.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 66,525 | 192.4 | 775.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 70,355 | 260.1 | 791.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 75,614 | 224.8 | 868.9 |
Maricopa Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Maricopa's 827 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 Arizona cities closest to Maricopa in population. Their populations run from 51,116 to 101,989, against 75,614 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Maricopa sits at 224.8/100K violent (grade B); the Arizona cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Maricopa at 224.8/100K violent and 868.9/100K property - matched below outside Arizona (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
224.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
868.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-13.6% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Maricopa reported 170 violent crimes and 657 property crimes, for a total of 827 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Maricopa's violent crime rate decreased by 13.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 9.8%.
The most common crime type in Maricopa is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.4% of all reported crimes (566 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Maricopa'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 Maricopa's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Maricopa, AZ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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