Murrieta, CA has a B safety grade (73/100) with a violent crime rate of 184 per 100,000, 48% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 112,125 residents, Murrieta 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.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Murrieta, CA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 48% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Murrieta, CA shows violent crime at 183.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 943.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 48% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 80.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 183.7 in 2024 (+127.5%). The highest observed value was 283.5 in 2022 and the lowest 80.8 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Murrieta's 183.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Folsom (183.4), Burlingame (183.2), San Clemente (183.2), Jurupa Valley (184.3). 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
At 183.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Murrieta ranks 346 of 458 — above 112 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -44.9% 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.
Property counts dominate Murrieta'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.
Across 35.4 Census sq mi, Murrieta logged 29.9 property and 5.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Murrieta's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 1,264 offenses; mix index 4,216).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Murrieta offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (35.4 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 | 1,058 | 943.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 784 | 699.2 |
| Burglary | 151 | 134.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 123 | 109.7 |
| Arson | 15 | 13.4 |
| Violent Crime | 206 | 183.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 135 | 120.4 |
| Robbery | 39 | 34.8 |
| Rape | 31 | 27.6 |
| Murder | 1 | 0.9 |
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 | 117,639 | 80.8 | 1027.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 117,835 | 156.2 | 802 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 114,655 | 283.5 | 1269.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 115,037 | 169.5 | 1231.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 112,125 | 183.7 | 943.6 |
Murrieta Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Murrieta's 1,264 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 Murrieta in population. Their populations run from 107,235 to 117,055, against 112,125 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Murrieta sits at 183.7/100K violent (grade B); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Murrieta at 183.7/100K violent and 943.6/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
183.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
943.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+8.4% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Murrieta reported 206 violent crimes and 1,058 property crimes, for a total of 1,264 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Murrieta's violent crime rate increased by 8.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23.4%.
The most common crime type in Murrieta is larceny-theft, accounting for 62.0% of all reported crimes (784 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Murrieta'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.
Large-city rate methodology for how Murrieta's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Murrieta, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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