Monte Sereno, CA has a A safety grade (85/100) with a violent crime rate of 87 per 100,000, 75% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Monte Sereno is a small municipal reporter (3,455 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with CA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Monte Sereno, CA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 75% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Monte Sereno, CA shows violent crime at 86.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 723.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 75% 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.
Small-count caution
Monte Sereno reported 3 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,455. 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 86.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Monte Sereno ranks 432 of 458 — above 26 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -73.9% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Monte Sereno's 86.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are San Ramon (86.4), Ross (88.0), La Canada Flintridge (88.4), Winters (89.0). 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 36.0% of reported property offenses in Monte Sereno, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (16) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 116.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 86.8 in 2024 (-25.4%). The highest observed value was 121.9 in 2023 and the lowest 28.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 10.7% of the 28 Part I offenses reported in Monte Sereno for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 6.4 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 counts dominate Monte Sereno'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 3 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,455. 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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 1.6 Census sq mi, Monte Sereno logged 15.3 property and 1.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Monte Sereno's 2024 book concentrates in burglary (57% of 28 offenses; mix index 4,413).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Monte Sereno offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.6 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 | 25 | 723.6 |
| Burglary | 16 | 463.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 9 | 260.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 3 | 86.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 86.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 3,438 | 116.3 | 436.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 3,507 | 28.5 | 456.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 3,307 | 60.5 | 1118.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 3,281 | 121.9 | 1036.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,455 | 86.8 | 723.6 |
Monte Sereno Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Monte Sereno's 28 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 California cities closest to Monte Sereno in population. Their populations run from 3,070 to 3,781, against 3,455 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Monte Sereno sits at 86.8/100K violent (grade A); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Monte Sereno reported 3 violent crimes and 25 property crimes, for a total of 28 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Monte Sereno's violent crime rate decreased by 28.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 30.2%.
The most common crime type in Monte Sereno is burglary, accounting for 57.1% of all reported crimes (16 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Monte Sereno is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Monte Sereno's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Monte Sereno, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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