Sacramento, CA has a F safety grade (8/100) with a violent crime rate of 755 per 100,000, 114% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
Sacramento, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 526,670 residents, Sacramento is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against CA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Sacramento, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 114% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sacramento, CA shows violent crime at 754.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,547.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 114% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
754.9/100K violent
2547.3/100K property
+114% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Sacramento, CA
Position in the state cohort
Sacramento reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities
At 754.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sacramento ranks 40 of 458 — above 418 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +129.8% 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.
Comparable rate records
Sacramento's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Sacramento's 754.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Marysville (745.1), Huron (769.5), Vallejo (739.8), Dunsmuir (739.4). 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
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 22.9% of the 17,392 Part I offenses reported in Sacramento for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 5.8 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 683.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 754.9 in 2024 (+10.5%). The highest observed value was 906.8 in 2022 and the lowest 683.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Sacramento'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 very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Sacramento's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 98.6 Census sq mi, Sacramento logged 136 property and 40.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Sacramento leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,037.
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (98.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-14.5%
2979.7 → 2547.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-6.2%
805 → 754.9/100K
Property offenses lead Sacramento's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
13,416
2547.3
1711
Larceny-Theft
8,406
1596.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
2,684
509.6
-
Burglary
2,326
441.6
-
Arson
155
29.4
-
Violent Crime
3,976
754.9
352
Aggravated Assault
2,737
519.7
-
Robbery
1,012
192.2
-
Rape
182
34.6
-
Murder
45
8.5
-
Sacramento 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.
Sacramento property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Sacramento Police Department
Reporting agency for Sacramento NIBRS-participating
Sacramento Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sacramento's 17,392 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Sacramento in population. Their populations run from 316,764 to 546,722, against 526,670 here. Or use our
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Sacramento at 754.9/100K violent and 2,547.3/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Sacramento reported 3,976 violent crimes and 13,416 property crimes, for a total of 17,392 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Sacramento?
From 2023 to 2024, Sacramento's violent crime rate decreased by 6.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 14.5%.
What is the most common crime in Sacramento?
The most common crime type in Sacramento is larceny-theft, accounting for 48.3% of all reported crimes (8,406 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Sacramento'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 (very 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 Sacramento, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.