Porterville, CA has a C safety grade (49/100) with a violent crime rate of 385 per 100,000, 9% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Porterville, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 62,891 residents, Porterville 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.
Porterville, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 9% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Porterville, CA shows violent crime at 384.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,481.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 9% 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.
C safety grade
384.8/100K violent
1481.9/100K property
+9% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Porterville, CA
Comparable rate records
Porterville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Porterville's 384.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Monterey (382.1), Auburn (381.8), Bell Gardens (388.1), Newark (380.9). 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 56.8% of reported property offenses in Porterville, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (182) and motor vehicle theft (221). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 20.6% of the 1,174 Part I offenses reported in Porterville for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 3.5 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
Porterville sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 384.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Porterville ranks 200 of 458 — above 258 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +17.1% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 394.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 384.8 in 2024 (-2.6%). The highest observed value was 508.3 in 2021 and the lowest 384.8 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Porterville'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.
Porterville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 18.8 Census sq mi, Porterville logged 49.5 property and 12.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Porterville leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,872.
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (18.8 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
-27.9%
2054.9 → 1481.9/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-13.2%
443.3 → 384.8/100K
Property offenses lead Porterville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
932
1481.9
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
529
841.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
221
351.4
-
Burglary
182
289.4
-
Arson
6
9.5
-
Violent Crime
242
384.8
476.8
Aggravated Assault
178
283
-
Robbery
44
70
-
Rape
20
31.8
-
Murder
0
0
-
Porterville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Porterville property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Porterville Police Department
Reporting agency for Porterville NIBRS-participating
Porterville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Porterville's 1,174 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
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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Porterville at 384.8/100K violent and 1,481.9/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Porterville reported 242 violent crimes and 932 property crimes, for a total of 1,174 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Porterville?
From 2023 to 2024, Porterville's violent crime rate decreased by 13.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 27.9%.
What is the most common crime in Porterville?
The most common crime type in Porterville is larceny-theft, accounting for 45.1% of all reported crimes (529 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Porterville'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 Porterville, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.