Mendota, CA has a D safety grade (26/100) with a violent crime rate of 687 per 100,000, 95% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Mendota (12,511 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
Mendota, CA carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 95% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mendota, CA shows violent crime at 687.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 671.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 95% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 50.6% of the 170 Part I offenses reported in Mendota for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 33.5 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 687.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mendota ranks 60 of 458 — above 398 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +109.3% 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mendota's 687.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Susanville (686.9), Huntington Park (691.4), Mount Shasta (694.9), Fort Bragg (695.6). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 51.2% of reported property offenses in Mendota, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (13) and motor vehicle theft (28). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 633.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 687.4 in 2024 (+8.6%). The highest observed value was 848.9 in 2023 and the lowest 608.5 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Mendota's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters 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.
Across 3.3 Census sq mi, Mendota logged 25.5 property and 26.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mendota leans on aggravated assault at 44% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,907.
Violent offenses are 51% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a mid-size city.
Mendota offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 86 | 687.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 74 | 591.5 |
| Robbery | 11 | 87.9 |
| Rape | 1 | 8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 84 | 671.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 43 | 343.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 28 | 223.8 |
| Burglary | 13 | 103.9 |
| Arson | 1 | 8 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 11,531 | 633.1 | 1526.3 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 12,545 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,819 | 608.5 | 1341.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 12,604 | 848.9 | 729.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,511 | 687.4 | 671.4 |
Mendota Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mendota's 170 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Mendota in population. Their populations run from 12,216 to 12,692, against 12,511 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Mendota sits at 687.4/100K violent (grade D); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Mendota at 687.4/100K violent and 671.4/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
687.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
671.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Mendota reported 86 violent crimes and 84 property crimes, for a total of 170 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Mendota's violent crime rate decreased by 19%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8%.
The most common crime type in Mendota is aggravated assault, accounting for 43.5% of all reported crimes (74 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Mendota 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Mendota's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mendota, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
Bulk download: city crime dataset (CSV/JSON)
Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Mendota is scored in the mid-size municipal band (12,511 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.