Marina, CA has a B safety grade (60/100) with a violent crime rate of 291 per 100,000, 17% below the national average.

FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city

Marina, CA Crime Rate & Safety

Marina (23,021 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

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B
Safety grade
1,242.3
Property / 100K
291
Violent / 100K
23K
Population

Marina, CA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 17% below the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Marina, CA shows violent crime at 291 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,242.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 17% 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.

  • B safety grade
  • 291/100K violent
  • 1242.3/100K property
  • -17% vs U.S.

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Marina, CA

Comparable rate records

Marina's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort

The nearest comparable 2024 records to Marina's 291.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are King City (290.5), Ione (289.3), Vacaville (293.2), Napa (288.7). 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 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 203.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 291.0 in 2024 (+43.3%). The highest observed value was 471.4 in 2021 and the lowest 203.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

Property-offense composition

Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort

Larceny-theft is 89.5% of reported property offenses in Marina, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (14) and motor vehicle theft (16). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.

Position in the state cohort

Marina sits mid-pack among comparable California cities

At 291.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Marina ranks 261 of 458 — above 197 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -12.6% 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.

Property counts dominate Marina'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.

Marina's 2024 municipal footprint

Across 8.9 Census sq mi, Marina logged 32.1 property and 7.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.

Marina's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 353 offenses; mix index 5,474).

Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.

Marina offense mix (2024)

Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.

Property rate moved most (2023→2024)

Property Crime Rate
-21.8%
1588.8 → 1242.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-15.7%
345.2 → 291/100K

Property offenses lead Marina's 2024 record

Offense Count Rate /100K
Property Crime 286 1242.3
Larceny-Theft 256 1112
Motor Vehicle Theft 16 69.5
Burglary 14 60.8
Arson 1 4.3
Violent Crime 67 291
Aggravated Assault 44 191.1
Rape 15 65.2
Robbery 8 34.8
Murder 0 0

Marina Crime Trend (2020-2024)

Marina property crime rate trend

Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR

Property crime rate (2024)
1,242.3/100K 21.8% vs 2023
1,2001,4001,6001,8002,000 20202021202220232024 1,242

Marina violent crime rate trend

Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR

Violent crime rate (2024)
291/100K 15.7% vs 2023
100200300400500 20202021202220232024 291
Year Coverage Population Violent Rate Property Rate
2020 Comparable 23,147 203.1 1451.6
2021 Comparable 22,060 471.4 1523.1
2022 Comparable 22,651 326.7 1907.2
2023 Comparable 22,596 345.2 1588.8
2024 Comparable 23,021 291 1242.3

How Marina sits among CA peers

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Marina vs. similar-size CA cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 9 cities; the anchor is ringed. Marina vs. similar-size CA cities, violent vs. property crime 70 622 Violent crime per 100K → 164 2,354 Property crime per 100K → Marina SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages

Marina Police Department

Reporting agency for Marina NIBRS-participating

Marina Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Marina's 353 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.

Similar-Size Cities in California

Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Marina in population. Their populations run from 21,980 to 23,708, against 23,021 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.

Marina's closest CA violent-rate matches

Marina sits at 291/100K violent (grade B); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.

Out-of-state peers for Marina

Marina at 291/100K violent and 1,242.3/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).

More about Marina's 2024 record

How many crimes were reported in Marina?

In 2024, Marina reported 67 violent crimes and 286 property crimes, for a total of 353 reported offenses.

Is crime increasing or decreasing in Marina?

From 2023 to 2024, Marina's violent crime rate decreased by 15.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 21.8%.

What is the most common crime in Marina?

The most common crime type in Marina is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.5% of all reported crimes (256 incidents in 2024).

Mid-size read: Marina 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.

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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Marina, 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. Marina is scored in the mid-size municipal band (23,021 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.