Rancho Cordova, CA has a D safety grade (39/100) with a violent crime rate of 426 per 100,000, 21% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Rancho Cordova, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 83,622 residents, Rancho Cordova 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.
Rancho Cordova, CA carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 21% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Rancho Cordova, CA shows violent crime at 425.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,111.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 21% 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.
D safety grade
425.7/100K violent
2111.9/100K property
+21% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Rancho Cordova, CA
Comparable rate records
Rancho Cordova's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Rancho Cordova's 425.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hemet (424.8), San Luis Obispo (424.4), Yuba City (423.8), El Monte (423.2). 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
Rancho Cordova sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 425.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Rancho Cordova ranks 169 of 458 — above 289 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +29.6% 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 close to where it started
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 422.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 425.7 in 2024 (+0.9%). The highest observed value was 473.2 in 2023 and the lowest 422.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Rancho Cordova'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.
Rancho Cordova's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 34.6 Census sq mi, Rancho Cordova logged 51.1 property and 10.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Rancho Cordova leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,803.
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (34.6 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%
473.2 → 425.7/100K
Property Crime Rate
-6.8%
2266.1 → 2111.9/100K
Property offenses lead Rancho Cordova's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,766
2111.9
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,223
1462.5
-
Burglary
272
325.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
271
324.1
-
Arson
12
14.4
-
Violent Crime
356
425.7
352
Aggravated Assault
252
301.4
-
Robbery
67
80.1
-
Rape
33
39.5
-
Murder
4
4.8
-
Rancho Cordova 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.
Rancho Cordova 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
Rancho Cordova Police Department
Reporting agency for Rancho Cordova NIBRS-participating
Rancho Cordova Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Rancho Cordova's 2,122 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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Rancho Cordova at 425.7/100K violent and 2,111.9/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Rancho Cordova reported 356 violent crimes and 1,766 property crimes, for a total of 2,122 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Rancho Cordova?
From 2023 to 2024, Rancho Cordova's violent crime rate decreased by 10%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.8%.
What is the most common crime in Rancho Cordova?
The most common crime type in Rancho Cordova is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.6% of all reported crimes (1,223 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Rancho Cordova'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 Rancho Cordova, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.