Redondo Beach, CA has a C safety grade (53/100) with a violent crime rate of 249 per 100,000, 29% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Redondo Beach, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 66,593 residents, Redondo Beach 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.
Redondo Beach, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 29% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Redondo Beach, CA shows violent crime at 249.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,585.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 29% below 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
249.3/100K violent
2585.9/100K property
-29% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Redondo Beach, CA
Comparable rate records
Redondo Beach's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Redondo Beach's 249.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Corona (249.4), Duarte (249.4), Buena Park (249.6), Newport Beach (251.8). 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 8.8% of the 1,888 Part I offenses reported in Redondo Beach for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 8.3 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
Redondo Beach sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 249.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Redondo Beach ranks 296 of 458 — above 162 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -25.2% 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.
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 250.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 249.3 in 2024 (-0.4%). The highest observed value was 428.8 in 2022 and the lowest 249.3 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Redondo Beach'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.
Redondo Beach's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 6.2 Census sq mi, Redondo Beach logged 277.8 property and 26.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Redondo Beach's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 1,888 offenses; mix index 4,773).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.2 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
-18.8%
307 → 249.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
+3.1%
2508 → 2585.9/100K
Property offenses lead Redondo Beach's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,722
2585.9
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,256
1886.1
-
Burglary
276
414.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
190
285.3
-
Arson
6
9
-
Violent Crime
166
249.3
352
Aggravated Assault
85
127.6
-
Robbery
64
96.1
-
Rape
16
24
-
Murder
1
1.5
-
Redondo Beach 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.
Redondo Beach 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
Redondo Beach Police Department
Reporting agency for Redondo Beach NIBRS-participating
Redondo Beach Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Redondo Beach's 1,888 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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Redondo Beach at 249.3/100K violent and 2,585.9/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Redondo Beach reported 166 violent crimes and 1,722 property crimes, for a total of 1,888 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Redondo Beach?
From 2023 to 2024, Redondo Beach's violent crime rate decreased by 18.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 3.1%.
What is the most common crime in Redondo Beach?
The most common crime type in Redondo Beach is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.5% of all reported crimes (1,256 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Redondo Beach'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 Redondo Beach, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.