Rancho Palos Verdes, CA has a A safety grade (83/100) with a violent crime rate of 92 per 100,000, 74% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA Crime Rate & Safety
Rancho Palos Verdes (39,289 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then CA and national benchmarks.
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 74% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA shows violent crime at 91.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 883.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 74% 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
91.6/100K violent
883.2/100K property
-74% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Position in the state cohort
Rancho Palos Verdes reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities
At 91.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Rancho Palos Verdes ranks 424 of 458 — above 34 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -72.5% against the cohort median of 333.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
Rancho Palos Verdes's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Rancho Palos Verdes's 91.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Guadalupe (91.3), Moraga (91.3), Yorba Linda (93.2), Hillsborough (93.2). 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 9.4% of the 383 Part I offenses reported in Rancho Palos Verdes for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 7.7 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 56.2% of reported property offenses in Rancho Palos Verdes, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (103) and motor vehicle theft (49). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 103.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 91.6 in 2024 (-11.5%). The highest observed value was 128.7 in 2022 and the lowest 91.6 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Rancho Palos Verdes'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.
Rancho Palos Verdes's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 13.5 Census sq mi, Rancho Palos Verdes logged 25.8 property and 2.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Rancho Palos Verdes leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,536.
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (13.5 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
-22.6%
118.3 → 91.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
+3.9%
850.4 → 883.2/100K
Property offenses lead Rancho Palos Verdes's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
347
883.2
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
195
496.3
-
Burglary
103
262.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
49
124.7
-
Arson
5
12.7
-
Violent Crime
36
91.6
476.8
Aggravated Assault
28
71.3
-
Rape
4
10.2
-
Robbery
4
10.2
-
Murder
0
0
-
Rancho Palos Verdes 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 Palos Verdes 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 Palos Verdes Police Department
Reporting agency for Rancho Palos Verdes Summary Reporting (SRS)
Rancho Palos Verdes Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Rancho Palos Verdes's 383 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Cities in California
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Rancho Palos Verdes in population. Their populations run from 37,414 to 41,029, against 39,289 here. Or use our
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Rancho Palos Verdes at 91.6/100K violent and 883.2/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Rancho Palos Verdes?
In 2024, Rancho Palos Verdes reported 36 violent crimes and 347 property crimes, for a total of 383 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Rancho Palos Verdes?
From 2023 to 2024, Rancho Palos Verdes's violent crime rate decreased by 22.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 3.9%.
What is the most common crime in Rancho Palos Verdes?
The most common crime type in Rancho Palos Verdes is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.9% of all reported crimes (195 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Rancho Palos Verdes 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Rancho Palos Verdes, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.