Prescott Valley, AZ has a B safety grade (71/100) with a violent crime rate of 225 per 100,000, 36% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Prescott Valley, AZ Crime Rate & Safety
At 51,116 residents, Prescott Valley is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against AZ and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Prescott Valley, AZ carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 36% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Prescott Valley, AZ shows violent crime at 225 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 768.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 36% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
225/100K violent
768.8/100K property
-36% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Prescott Valley, AZ
Comparable rate records
Prescott Valley's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Arizona cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Prescott Valley's 225.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Maricopa (224.8), Cottonwood (223.2), Nogales (228.6), Kingman (221.1). 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 168.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 225.0 in 2024 (+33.5%). The highest observed value was 309.6 in 2022 and the lowest 168.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 22.6% of the 508 Part I offenses reported in Prescott Valley for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Arizona cities — a gap of 8.4 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 dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 86.8% of reported property offenses in Prescott Valley, against a cohort median of 77.8%. The remainder is burglary (23) and motor vehicle theft (29). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
Prescott Valley sits mid-pack among comparable Arizona cities
At 225.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Prescott Valley ranks 35 of 64 — above 29 of the 63 other Arizona cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -13.9% against the cohort median of 261.2. 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 Prescott Valley'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.
Prescott Valley's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 40.4 Census sq mi, Prescott Valley logged 9.7 property and 2.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Prescott Valley's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 508 offenses; mix index 4,875).
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (40.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-17.9%
936.9 → 768.8/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-15.1%
265.1 → 225/100K
Property offenses lead Prescott Valley's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs AZ
vs US avg
Property Crime
393
768.8
1786
1711
Larceny-Theft
341
667.1
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
29
56.7
-
-
Burglary
23
45
-
-
Arson
7
13.7
-
-
Violent Crime
115
225
428.6
352
Aggravated Assault
87
170.2
-
-
Rape
23
45
-
-
Robbery
3
5.9
-
-
Murder
2
3.9
-
-
Prescott Valley Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Prescott Valley 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
Prescott Valley Police Department
Reporting agency for Prescott Valley NIBRS-participating
Prescott Valley Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Prescott Valley's 508 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 Arizona
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Arizona cities closest to Prescott Valley in population. Their populations run from 38,809 to 60,507, against 51,116 here. Or use our
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Prescott Valley at 225/100K violent and 768.8/100K property - matched below outside Arizona (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Prescott Valley reported 115 violent crimes and 393 property crimes, for a total of 508 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Prescott Valley?
From 2023 to 2024, Prescott Valley's violent crime rate decreased by 15.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 17.9%.
What is the most common crime in Prescott Valley?
The most common crime type in Prescott Valley is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.1% of all reported crimes (341 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Prescott Valley'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 Prescott Valley, AZ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.