Paso Robles, CA has a C safety grade (48/100) with a violent crime rate of 364 per 100,000, 3% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Paso Robles (31,018 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
Paso Robles, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 3% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Paso Robles, CA shows violent crime at 364.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,857 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 3% above 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 163.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 364.3 in 2024 (+122.9%). The highest observed value was 393.2 in 2023 and the lowest 163.4 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 Paso Robles's 364.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Rio Dell (365.5), La Habra (363.0), San Fernando (362.5), Pismo Beach (366.6). 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 86.3% of reported property offenses in Paso Robles, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (47) and motor vehicle theft (32). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 364.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Paso Robles ranks 211 of 458 — above 247 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +10.9% 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 counts dominate Paso Robles'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.
Across 990.3 Census sq mi, Paso Robles logged 0.6 property and 0.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Paso Robles's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 689 offenses; mix index 5,424).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Paso Robles offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (990.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 576 | 1857 |
| Larceny-Theft | 497 | 1602.3 |
| Burglary | 47 | 151.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 32 | 103.2 |
| Arson | 4 | 12.9 |
| Violent Crime | 113 | 364.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 82 | 264.4 |
| Rape | 20 | 64.5 |
| Robbery | 11 | 35.5 |
| 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.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 32,428 | 163.4 | 1147.2 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 31,700 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 31,966 | 303.4 | 1670.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 31,539 | 393.2 | 1572.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 31,018 | 364.3 | 1857 |
Paso Robles Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Paso Robles's 689 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Paso Robles in population. Their populations run from 30,457 to 32,093, against 31,018 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Paso Robles sits at 364.3/100K violent (grade C); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Paso Robles at 364.3/100K violent and 1,857/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
364.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,857/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-7.3% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Paso Robles reported 113 violent crimes and 576 property crimes, for a total of 689 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Paso Robles's violent crime rate decreased by 7.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 18.1%.
The most common crime type in Paso Robles is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.1% of all reported crimes (497 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Paso Robles 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 Paso Robles's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Paso Robles, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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