Port Hueneme, CA has a D safety grade (34/100) with a violent crime rate of 510 per 100,000, 45% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Port Hueneme (20,969 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
Port Hueneme, CA carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 45% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Port Hueneme, CA shows violent crime at 510.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,769.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 45% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D 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 264.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 510.3 in 2024 (+93.1%). The highest observed value was 510.3 in 2024 and the lowest 255.5 in 2023. 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 Port Hueneme's 510.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Fowler (509.5), Stanton (512.0), Beverly Hills (512.2), El Segundo (512.5). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 510.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Port Hueneme ranks 123 of 458 — above 335 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +55.3% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 22.4% of the 478 Part I offenses reported in Port Hueneme for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 5.3 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 counts dominate Port Hueneme'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 4.4 Census sq mi, Port Hueneme logged 84 property and 24.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Port Hueneme leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,823.
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Port Hueneme offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.4 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 | 371 | 1769.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 274 | 1306.7 |
| Burglary | 61 | 290.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 36 | 171.7 |
| Arson | 5 | 23.8 |
| Violent Crime | 107 | 510.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 83 | 395.8 |
| Robbery | 18 | 85.8 |
| Murder | 3 | 14.3 |
| Rape | 3 | 14.3 |
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 | 21,949 | 264.2 | 1831.5 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 21,748 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 21,545 | 264.6 | 1838 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 21,136 | 255.5 | 1646.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 20,969 | 510.3 | 1769.3 |
Port Hueneme Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Port Hueneme's 478 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 Port Hueneme in population. Their populations run from 20,534 to 21,897, against 20,969 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Port Hueneme sits at 510.3/100K violent (grade D); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Port Hueneme at 510.3/100K violent and 1,769.3/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
510.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,769.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Port Hueneme reported 107 violent crimes and 371 property crimes, for a total of 478 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Port Hueneme's violent crime rate increased by 99.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 7.5%.
The most common crime type in Port Hueneme is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.3% of all reported crimes (274 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Port Hueneme 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 Port Hueneme's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Port Hueneme, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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