Pleasant Hill, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 33% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pleasant Hill, CA shows violent crime at 235.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,025.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 33% 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
235.5/100K violent
4025.2/100K property
-33% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Pleasant Hill, CA
Comparable rate records
Pleasant Hill's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Pleasant Hill's 235.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Livermore (234.9), Laguna Hills (234.2), Windsor (233.8), West Covina (239.3). 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 5.5% of the 1,429 Part I offenses reported in Pleasant Hill for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 11.6 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
Pleasant Hill sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 235.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pleasant Hill ranks 305 of 458 — above 153 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -29.3% 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 85.0% of reported property offenses in Pleasant Hill, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (92) and motor vehicle theft (111). 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 lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 271.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 235.5 in 2024 (-13.1%). The highest observed value was 311.2 in 2022 and the lowest 235.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Pleasant Hill'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.
Pleasant Hill's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 7.1 Census sq mi, Pleasant Hill logged 190.8 property and 11.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Pleasant Hill's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (80% of 1,429 offenses; mix index 6,558).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-24%
309.8 → 235.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-21.3%
5113.9 → 4025.2/100K
Property offenses lead Pleasant Hill's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs CA
Property Crime
1,350
4025.2
1711
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
1,147
3419.9
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
111
331
-
-
Burglary
92
274.3
-
-
Arson
3
8.9
-
-
Violent Crime
79
235.5
352
476.8
Aggravated Assault
39
116.3
-
-
Robbery
34
101.4
-
-
Rape
4
11.9
-
-
Murder
2
6
-
-
Pleasant Hill 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.
Pleasant Hill 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
Pleasant Hill Police Department
Reporting agency for Pleasant Hill NIBRS-participating
Pleasant Hill Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Pleasant Hill's 1,429 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.
Similar-Size Cities in California
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Pleasant Hill at 235.5/100K violent and 4,025.2/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Pleasant Hill reported 79 violent crimes and 1,350 property crimes, for a total of 1,429 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Pleasant Hill?
From 2023 to 2024, Pleasant Hill's violent crime rate decreased by 24%, and the property crime rate decreased by 21.3%.
What is the most common crime in Pleasant Hill?
The most common crime type in Pleasant Hill is larceny-theft, accounting for 80.3% of all reported crimes (1,147 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Pleasant Hill 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Pleasant Hill, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.