Mesquite, NV has a A safety grade (79/100) with a violent crime rate of 123 per 100,000, 65% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Mesquite (23,559 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NV and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Mesquite, NV carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 65% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mesquite, NV shows violent crime at 123.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,006 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 65% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 123.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mesquite ranks 11 of 11 — above 0 of the 10 other Nevada cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -68.9% against the cohort median of 396.1. 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 Mesquite's 123.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Boulder City (182.4), Fallon (207.0), Henderson (272.4), North Las Vegas (388.9). 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.
Small-count caution
Mesquite reported 29 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 23,559. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 10.9% of the 266 Part I offenses reported in Mesquite for 2024, against a median of 17.2% across comparable Nevada 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 113.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 123.1 in 2024 (+8.6%). The highest observed value was 189.3 in 2023 and the lowest 113.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Mesquite'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.
Based on 29 reported violent incidents in a population of 23,559. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 31.8 Census sq mi, Mesquite logged 7.5 property and 0.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mesquite's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 266 offenses; mix index 4,135).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Mesquite offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (31.8 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 | 237 | 1006 |
| Larceny-Theft | 160 | 679.1 |
| Burglary | 51 | 216.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 26 | 110.4 |
| Arson | 2 | 8.5 |
| Violent Crime | 29 | 123.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 17 | 72.2 |
| Rape | 9 | 38.2 |
| Robbery | 3 | 12.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
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 | 20,290 | 113.4 | 1365.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 21,038 | 152.1 | 1929.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 21,732 | 147.2 | 1329.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 22,714 | 189.3 | 1197.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 23,559 | 123.1 | 1006 |
Mesquite Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mesquite's 266 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 Nevada cities closest to Mesquite in population. Their populations run from 4,494 to 293,100, against 23,559 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Mesquite sits at 123.1/100K violent (grade A); the Nevada cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Mesquite at 123.1/100K violent and 1,006/100K property - matched below outside Nevada (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
123.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,006/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Mesquite reported 29 violent crimes and 237 property crimes, for a total of 266 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Mesquite's violent crime rate decreased by 35%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16%.
The most common crime type in Mesquite is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.2% of all reported crimes (160 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Mesquite 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 Mesquite's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mesquite, NV 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. Mesquite is scored in the mid-size municipal band (23,559 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.