Menifee, CA has a A safety grade (75/100) with a violent crime rate of 183 per 100,000, 48% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Menifee, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 117,055 residents, Menifee 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.
Menifee, CA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 48% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Menifee, CA shows violent crime at 182.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 798.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 48% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
A safety grade
182.8/100K violent
798.8/100K property
-48% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Menifee, CA
Comparable rate records
Menifee's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Menifee's 182.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are San Gabriel (182.9), Sutter Creek (182.5), San Clemente (183.2), Burlingame (183.2). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Menifee reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities
At 182.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Menifee ranks 351 of 458 — above 107 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -45.1% 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.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 202.2 per 100,000 in 2021 to 182.8 in 2024 (-9.6%). The highest observed value was 302.7 in 2022 and the lowest 182.8 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Menifee'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.
Menifee's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 46.5 Census sq mi, Menifee logged 20.1 property and 4.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Menifee leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,713.
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (46.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-33.1%
1194.7 → 798.8/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-8.9%
200.6 → 182.8/100K
Property offenses lead Menifee's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
935
798.8
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
649
554.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
176
150.4
-
Burglary
110
94
-
Arson
2
1.7
-
Violent Crime
214
182.8
476.8
Aggravated Assault
156
133.3
-
Rape
29
24.8
-
Robbery
28
23.9
-
Murder
1
0.9
-
Menifee Crime Trend (2021-2024)
Menifee property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Menifee Police Department
Reporting agency for Menifee NIBRS-participating
Menifee Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Menifee's 1,149 reported offenses (4-year span 2021-2024).
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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In 2024, Menifee reported 214 violent crimes and 935 property crimes, for a total of 1,149 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Menifee?
From 2023 to 2024, Menifee's violent crime rate decreased by 8.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 33.1%.
What is the most common crime in Menifee?
The most common crime type in Menifee is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.5% of all reported crimes (649 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Menifee'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Menifee, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.