San Jacinto, CA has a B safety grade (60/100) with a violent crime rate of 254 per 100,000, 28% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
San Jacinto, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 55,863 residents, San Jacinto 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 Jacinto, CA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 28% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, San Jacinto, CA shows violent crime at 254.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,727.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 28% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
254.2/100K violent
1727.4/100K property
-28% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for San Jacinto, CA
Comparable rate records
San Jacinto's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to San Jacinto's 254.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Santee (254.4), Novato (253.6), San Bruno (256.5), 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 196.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 254.2 in 2024 (+29.1%). The highest observed value was 409.3 in 2023 and the lowest 196.4 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
San Jacinto sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 254.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, San Jacinto ranks 290 of 458 — above 168 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -23.7% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 12.8% of the 1,107 Part I offenses reported in San Jacinto for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 4.3 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.
Property counts dominate San Jacinto'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 Jacinto's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 25.9 Census sq mi, San Jacinto logged 37.3 property and 5.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
San Jacinto leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,667.
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (25.9 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
-37.9%
409.3 → 254.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-21.1%
2189 → 1727.4/100K
Property offenses lead San Jacinto's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
965
1727.4
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
614
1099.1
-
Burglary
205
367
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
146
261.4
-
Arson
9
16.1
-
Violent Crime
142
254.2
476.8
Aggravated Assault
68
121.7
-
Robbery
65
116.4
-
Rape
7
12.5
-
Murder
2
3.6
-
San Jacinto 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 Jacinto 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
San Jacinto Police Department
Reporting agency for San Jacinto Summary Reporting (SRS)
San Jacinto Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind San Jacinto's 1,107 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 San Jacinto in population. Their populations run from 54,915 to 57,584, against 55,863 here. Or use our
side-by-side compare tool
to benchmark two cities directly.
San Jacinto at 254.2/100K violent and 1,727.4/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, San Jacinto reported 142 violent crimes and 965 property crimes, for a total of 1,107 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in San Jacinto?
From 2023 to 2024, San Jacinto's violent crime rate decreased by 37.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 21.1%.
What is the most common crime in San Jacinto?
The most common crime type in San Jacinto is larceny-theft, accounting for 55.5% of all reported crimes (614 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: San Jacinto'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 Jacinto, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.