Phoenix, AZ has a F safety grade (10/100) with a violent crime rate of 800 per 100,000, 127% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
At 1,662,809 residents, Phoenix is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against AZ and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Phoenix, AZ carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 127% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Phoenix, AZ shows violent crime at 799.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,325.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 127% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 799.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Phoenix ranks 5 of 64 — above 59 of the 63 other Arizona cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +214.0% against the cohort median of 254.7. 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 Phoenix's 799.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Globe (810.5), Winslow (813.2), Show Low (737.4), St. Johns (628.2). 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.
Share of the state cohort
The 51,962 Part I offenses reported here are 36.4% of the 142,651 reported across all 64 comparable Arizona cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 1,662,809 rather than as a uniform shift.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 25.6% of the 51,962 Part I offenses reported in Phoenix for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Arizona cities — a gap of 11.3 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 68.0% of reported property offenses in Phoenix, against a cohort median of 77.9%. The remainder is burglary (5,274) and motor vehicle theft (7,084). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 798.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 799.6 in 2024 (+0.1%). The highest observed value was 825.1 in 2022 and the lowest 784.8 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Phoenix'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 very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 518.3 Census sq mi, Phoenix logged 74.6 property and 25.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Phoenix leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,195.
Violent offenses are 26% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Phoenix offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (518.3 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 | 38,666 | 2325.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 26,308 | 1582.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7,084 | 426 |
| Burglary | 5,274 | 317.2 |
| Arson | 226 | 13.6 |
| Violent Crime | 13,296 | 799.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 9,068 | 545.3 |
| Robbery | 3,020 | 181.6 |
| Rape | 1,069 | 64.3 |
| Murder | 139 | 8.4 |
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 · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 1,708,960 | 798.5 | 3006.9 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 1,638,290 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,637,902 | 825.1 | 2917.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,660,686 | 784.8 | 2494.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,662,809 | 799.6 | 2325.3 |
Phoenix Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Phoenix's 51,962 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 Arizona cities closest to Phoenix in population. Their populations run from 191,376 to 548,789, against 1,662,809 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Phoenix sits at 799.6/100K violent (grade F); the Arizona cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Phoenix at 799.6/100K violent and 2,325.3/100K property - matched below outside Arizona (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
799.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,325.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+1.9% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Phoenix reported 13,296 violent crimes and 38,666 property crimes, for a total of 51,962 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Phoenix's violent crime rate increased by 1.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.8%.
The most common crime type in Phoenix is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.6% of all reported crimes (26,308 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Phoenix'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 (very large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Phoenix's very large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Phoenix, AZ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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