Queen Creek, AZ has a A safety grade (81/100) with a violent crime rate of 120 per 100,000, 66% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Queen Creek, AZ Crime Rate & Safety
At 82,639 residents, Queen Creek 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.
Queen Creek, AZ carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 66% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Queen Creek, AZ shows violent crime at 119.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 821.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 66% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
A safety grade
119.8/100K violent
821.6/100K property
-66% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Queen Creek, AZ
Comparable rate records
Queen Creek's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Arizona cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Queen Creek's 119.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Florence (119.9), Marana (115.7), Surprise (109.1), Wickenburg (107.9). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Queen Creek reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Arizona cities
At 119.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Queen Creek ranks 49 of 64 — above 15 of the 63 other Arizona cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -54.1% 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.
2022–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 145.4 per 100,000 in 2022 to 119.8 in 2024 (-17.6%). The highest observed value was 145.4 in 2022 and the lowest 119.8 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 89.0% of reported property offenses in Queen Creek, against a cohort median of 77.8%. The remainder is burglary (47) and motor vehicle theft (28). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Queen Creek'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.
Queen Creek's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 42.1 Census sq mi, Queen Creek logged 16.1 property and 2.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Queen Creek's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 778 offenses; mix index 6,201).
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (42.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-10.5%
133.8 → 119.8/100K
Property Crime Rate
-7.5%
888 → 821.6/100K
Property offenses lead Queen Creek's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs AZ
vs US avg
Property Crime
679
821.6
1786
1711
Larceny-Theft
604
730.9
-
-
Burglary
47
56.9
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
28
33.9
-
-
Arson
7
8.5
-
-
Violent Crime
99
119.8
428.6
352
Aggravated Assault
86
104.1
-
-
Rape
10
12.1
-
-
Robbery
3
3.6
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Queen Creek Crime Trend (2022-2024)
Queen Creek property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Queen Creek Police Department
Reporting agency for Queen Creek NIBRS-participating
Queen Creek Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Queen Creek's 778 reported offenses (3-year span 2022-2024).
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 Queen Creek in population. Their populations run from 51,116 to 101,989, against 82,639 here. Or use our
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Queen Creek at 119.8/100K violent and 821.6/100K property - matched below outside Arizona (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Queen Creek reported 99 violent crimes and 679 property crimes, for a total of 778 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Queen Creek?
From 2023 to 2024, Queen Creek's violent crime rate decreased by 10.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.5%.
What is the most common crime in Queen Creek?
The most common crime type in Queen Creek is larceny-theft, accounting for 77.6% of all reported crimes (604 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Queen Creek'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 Queen Creek, AZ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.