Moreno Valley, CA has a C safety grade (58/100) with a violent crime rate of 273 per 100,000, 23% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Moreno Valley, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 213,581 residents, Moreno Valley 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.
Moreno Valley, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 23% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Moreno Valley, CA shows violent crime at 272.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,665.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 23% 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
272.5/100K violent
1665.9/100K property
-23% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Moreno Valley, CA
Comparable rate records
Moreno Valley's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Moreno Valley's 272.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Ontario (272.2), Petaluma (271.8), Monterey Park (274.1), Azusa (270.7). 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 lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 387.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 272.5 in 2024 (-29.6%). The highest observed value was 387.0 in 2020 and the lowest 272.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Moreno Valley sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 272.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Moreno Valley ranks 279 of 458 — above 179 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -18.2% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 14.1% of the 4,140 Part I offenses reported in Moreno Valley for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 3.1 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 Moreno Valley'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.
Moreno Valley's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 51.3 Census sq mi, Moreno Valley logged 69.3 property and 11.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Moreno Valley's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 4,140 offenses; mix index 4,082).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (51.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-14.3%
317.8 → 272.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-14.6%
1949.9 → 1665.9/100K
Property offenses lead Moreno Valley's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
3,558
1665.9
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
2,503
1171.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
555
259.9
-
Burglary
500
234.1
-
Arson
4
1.9
-
Violent Crime
582
272.5
476.8
Aggravated Assault
374
175.1
-
Robbery
182
85.2
-
Rape
19
8.9
-
Murder
7
3.3
-
Moreno Valley 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.
Moreno Valley 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
Moreno Valley Police Department
Reporting agency for Moreno Valley Summary Reporting (SRS)
Moreno Valley Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Moreno Valley's 4,140 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.
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Moreno Valley at 272.5/100K violent and 1,665.9/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Moreno Valley reported 582 violent crimes and 3,558 property crimes, for a total of 4,140 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Moreno Valley?
From 2023 to 2024, Moreno Valley's violent crime rate decreased by 14.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 14.6%.
What is the most common crime in Moreno Valley?
The most common crime type in Moreno Valley is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.5% of all reported crimes (2,503 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Moreno Valley'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 Moreno Valley, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.