Parlier, CA has a F safety grade (22/100) with a violent crime rate of 897 per 100,000, 155% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Parlier (14,377 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then CA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Parlier, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 155% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Parlier, CA shows violent crime at 897.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 966.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 155% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 368.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 897.3 in 2024 (+143.4%). The highest observed value was 897.3 in 2024 and the lowest 368.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 48.1% of the 268 Part I offenses reported in Parlier for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 31.0 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
At 897.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Parlier ranks 30 of 458 — above 428 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +173.2% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Parlier's 897.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are San Bernardino (897.1), Santa Fe Springs (905.8), Isleton (909.1), Lynwood (910.0). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 58.3% of reported property offenses in Parlier, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (17) and motor vehicle theft (41). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Parlier's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters 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.
Across 2.5 Census sq mi, Parlier logged 55.1 property and 51.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Parlier leans on aggravated assault at 42% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,956.
Violent offenses are 48% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a mid-size city.
Parlier offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 139 | 966.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 81 | 563.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 41 | 285.2 |
| Burglary | 17 | 118.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 129 | 897.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 112 | 779 |
| Rape | 11 | 76.5 |
| Robbery | 6 | 41.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 15,734 | 368.6 | 1252.1 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 15,979 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 14,760 | 745.3 | 1199.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 14,523 | 833.2 | 1136.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 14,377 | 897.3 | 966.8 |
Parlier Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Parlier's 268 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Parlier in population. Their populations run from 14,008 to 14,856, against 14,377 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Parlier sits at 897.3/100K violent (grade F); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Parlier at 897.3/100K violent and 966.8/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
897.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
966.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Parlier reported 129 violent crimes and 139 property crimes, for a total of 268 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Parlier's violent crime rate increased by 7.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 14.9%.
The most common crime type in Parlier is aggravated assault, accounting for 41.8% of all reported crimes (112 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Parlier 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Parlier's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Parlier, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Parlier is scored in the mid-size municipal band (14,377 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.