Palm Springs, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 71% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Palm Springs, CA shows violent crime at 603.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,213.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 71% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
603.4/100K violent
3213.2/100K property
+71% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Palm Springs, CA
Comparable rate records
Palm Springs's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Palm Springs's 603.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Yucca Valley (605.6), Antioch (606.8), San Jose (606.8), East Palo Alto (607.3). 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
Palm Springs reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities
At 603.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Palm Springs ranks 87 of 458 — above 371 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +83.7% against the cohort median of 328.5. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 525.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 603.4 in 2024 (+14.9%). The highest observed value was 699.5 in 2022 and the lowest 525.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Palm Springs'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Palm Springs's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 94.5 Census sq mi, Palm Springs logged 15.4 property and 2.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Palm Springs's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 1,733 offenses; mix index 4,177).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (94.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-13.8%
3729.7 → 3213.2/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+2.9%
586.5 → 603.4/100K
Property offenses lead Palm Springs's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs CA
Property Crime
1,459
3213.2
1711
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
1,069
2354.3
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
215
473.5
-
-
Burglary
175
385.4
-
-
Arson
9
19.8
-
-
Violent Crime
274
603.4
352
476.8
Aggravated Assault
171
376.6
-
-
Robbery
67
147.6
-
-
Rape
31
68.3
-
-
Murder
5
11
-
-
Palm Springs 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.
Palm Springs 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
Palm Springs Police Department
Reporting agency for Palm Springs NIBRS-participating
Palm Springs Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Palm Springs's 1,733 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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Palm Springs at 603.4/100K violent and 3,213.2/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Palm Springs reported 274 violent crimes and 1,459 property crimes, for a total of 1,733 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Palm Springs?
From 2023 to 2024, Palm Springs's violent crime rate increased by 2.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 13.8%.
What is the most common crime in Palm Springs?
The most common crime type in Palm Springs is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.7% of all reported crimes (1,069 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Palm Springs 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Palm Springs, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.