San Bernardino, CA has a F safety grade (5/100) with a violent crime rate of 897 per 100,000, 155% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
San Bernardino, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 224,283 residents, San Bernardino 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.
San Bernardino, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 155% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, San Bernardino, CA shows violent crime at 897.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,897.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 155% 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
897.1/100K violent
2897.7/100K property
+155% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for San Bernardino, CA
Position in the state cohort
San Bernardino reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities
At 897.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, San Bernardino ranks 31 of 458 — above 427 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +173.1% 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
San Bernardino's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to San Bernardino's 897.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Parlier (897.3), Santa Fe Springs (905.8), Isleton (909.1), West Hollywood (884.2). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1401.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 897.1 in 2024 (-36.0%). The highest observed value was 1401.8 in 2020 and the lowest 897.1 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 23.6% of the 8,511 Part I offenses reported in San Bernardino for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 6.5 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 57.9% of reported property offenses in San Bernardino, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (1,021) and motor vehicle theft (1,716). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate San Bernardino'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.
San Bernardino's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 62.1 Census sq mi, San Bernardino logged 104.6 property and 32.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
San Bernardino leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,792.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (62.1 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
-16.3%
1071.2 → 897.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-10.9%
3251.7 → 2897.7/100K
Property offenses lead San Bernardino's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
6,499
2897.7
1711
Larceny-Theft
3,762
1677.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
1,716
765.1
-
Burglary
1,021
455.2
-
Arson
52
23.2
-
Violent Crime
2,012
897.1
352
Aggravated Assault
1,334
594.8
-
Robbery
541
241.2
-
Rape
112
49.9
-
Murder
25
11.1
-
San Bernardino 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.
San Bernardino 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
San Bernardino Police Department
Reporting agency for San Bernardino NIBRS-participating
San Bernardino Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind San Bernardino's 8,511 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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San Bernardino at 897.1/100K violent and 2,897.7/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, San Bernardino reported 2,012 violent crimes and 6,499 property crimes, for a total of 8,511 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in San Bernardino?
From 2023 to 2024, San Bernardino's violent crime rate decreased by 16.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.9%.
What is the most common crime in San Bernardino?
The most common crime type in San Bernardino is larceny-theft, accounting for 44.2% of all reported crimes (3,762 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: San Bernardino'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 San Bernardino, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.