Monterey Park, CA has a C safety grade (54/100) with a violent crime rate of 274 per 100,000, 22% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Monterey Park, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 56,904 residents, Monterey Park 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.
Monterey Park, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 22% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Monterey Park, CA shows violent crime at 274.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,110.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 22% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
274.1/100K violent
2110.6/100K property
-22% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Monterey Park, CA
Comparable rate records
Monterey Park's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Monterey Park's 274.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Patterson (274.6), Woodland (274.6), Moreno Valley (272.5), Ontario (272.2). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 189.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 274.1 in 2024 (+44.6%). The highest observed value was 337.9 in 2023 and the lowest 189.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 11.5% of the 1,357 Part I offenses reported in Monterey Park for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 5.6 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
Monterey Park sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 274.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Monterey Park ranks 278 of 458 — above 180 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -17.7% 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 Monterey Park'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.
Monterey Park's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 7.7 Census sq mi, Monterey Park logged 156.5 property and 20.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Monterey Park leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,743.
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-18.9%
337.9 → 274.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-9.2%
2323.3 → 2110.6/100K
Property offenses lead Monterey Park's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,201
2110.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
763
1340.9
-
Burglary
236
414.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
202
355
-
Arson
7
12.3
-
Violent Crime
156
274.1
352
Aggravated Assault
80
140.6
-
Robbery
64
112.5
-
Rape
11
19.3
-
Murder
1
1.8
-
Monterey Park Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Monterey Park property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Monterey Park Police Department
Reporting agency for Monterey Park NIBRS-participating
Monterey Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Monterey Park's 1,357 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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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Monterey Park at 274.1/100K violent and 2,110.6/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Monterey Park reported 156 violent crimes and 1,201 property crimes, for a total of 1,357 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Monterey Park?
From 2023 to 2024, Monterey Park's violent crime rate decreased by 18.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9.2%.
What is the most common crime in Monterey Park?
The most common crime type in Monterey Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.2% of all reported crimes (763 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Monterey Park'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 Monterey Park, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.