Perris, CA has a C safety grade (51/100) with a violent crime rate of 328 per 100,000, 7% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Perris, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 81,203 residents, Perris 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.
Perris, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 7% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Perris, CA shows violent crime at 327.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,834.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 7% below 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.
C safety grade
327.6/100K violent
1834.9/100K property
-7% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Perris, CA
Comparable rate records
Perris's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Perris's 327.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are El Centro (328.4), Santa Paula (326.7), Kerman (328.5), American Canyon (325.5). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 380.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 327.6 in 2024 (-13.8%). The highest observed value was 380.0 in 2020 and the lowest 302.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Perris sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 327.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Perris ranks 232 of 458 — above 226 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -1.7% 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 Perris'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.
Perris's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 31.6 Census sq mi, Perris logged 47.2 property and 8.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Perris's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 1,756 offenses; mix index 4,405).
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (31.6 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
-27%
2511.9 → 1834.9/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-5.9%
348.3 → 327.6/100K
Property offenses lead Perris's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,490
1834.9
1985.9
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,119
1378
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
232
285.7
-
-
Burglary
139
171.2
-
-
Arson
8
9.9
-
-
Violent Crime
266
327.6
476.8
352
Aggravated Assault
164
202
-
-
Robbery
73
89.9
-
-
Rape
26
32
-
-
Murder
3
3.7
-
-
Perris 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.
Perris 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
Perris Police Department
Reporting agency for Perris Summary Reporting (SRS)
Perris Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Perris's 1,756 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.
Similar-Size Cities in California
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Perris at 327.6/100K violent and 1,834.9/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Perris reported 266 violent crimes and 1,490 property crimes, for a total of 1,756 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Perris?
From 2023 to 2024, Perris's violent crime rate decreased by 5.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 27%.
What is the most common crime in Perris?
The most common crime type in Perris is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.7% of all reported crimes (1,119 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Perris'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 Perris, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.