Paramount, CA has a F safety grade (21/100) with a violent crime rate of 547 per 100,000, 55% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Paramount, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 50,265 residents, Paramount 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.
Paramount, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 55% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Paramount, CA shows violent crime at 547.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,815.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 55% 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
547.1/100K violent
2815.1/100K property
+55% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Paramount, CA
Comparable rate records
Paramount's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Paramount's 547.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are San Leandro (548.7), Palmdale (551.0), Ukiah (552.9), Grass Valley (540.2). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Paramount reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities
At 547.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Paramount ranks 109 of 458 — above 349 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +66.6% 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 47.6% of reported property offenses in Paramount, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (222) and motor vehicle theft (520). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 487.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 547.1 in 2024 (+12.2%). The highest observed value was 729.5 in 2023 and the lowest 487.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Paramount'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.
Paramount's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 4.7 Census sq mi, Paramount logged 299.4 property and 58.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Paramount leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,836.
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.7 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
-25%
729.5 → 547.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
+0.5%
2801.8 → 2815.1/100K
Property offenses lead Paramount's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,415
2815.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
673
1338.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
520
1034.5
-
Burglary
222
441.7
-
Arson
17
33.8
-
Violent Crime
275
547.1
352
Aggravated Assault
164
326.3
-
Robbery
100
198.9
-
Rape
10
19.9
-
Murder
1
2
-
Paramount 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.
Paramount 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
Paramount Police Department
Reporting agency for Paramount Summary Reporting (SRS)
Paramount Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Paramount's 1,690 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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Paramount at 547.1/100K violent and 2,815.1/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Paramount reported 275 violent crimes and 1,415 property crimes, for a total of 1,690 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Paramount?
From 2023 to 2024, Paramount's violent crime rate decreased by 25%, and the property crime rate increased by 0.5%.
What is the most common crime in Paramount?
The most common crime type in Paramount is larceny-theft, accounting for 39.8% of all reported crimes (673 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Paramount'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 Paramount, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.