San Luis, AZ has a A safety grade (86/100) with a violent crime rate of 88 per 100,000, 75% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
San Luis (38,809 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then AZ and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
San Luis, AZ carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 75% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, San Luis, AZ shows violent crime at 87.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 548.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 75% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 87.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, San Luis ranks 56 of 64 — above 8 of the 63 other Arizona cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -66.5% against the cohort median of 261.2. 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to San Luis's 87.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Sahuarita (91.8), Paradise Valley (80.4), Chino Valley (78.2), Douglas (78.1). 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 70.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 87.6 in 2024 (+24.7%). The highest observed value was 87.6 in 2024 and the lowest 51.9 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate San Luis'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.
Across 33.8 Census sq mi, San Luis logged 6.3 property and 1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
San Luis's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 247 offenses; mix index 4,228).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
San Luis offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (33.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 213 | 548.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 152 | 391.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 34 | 87.6 |
| Burglary | 27 | 69.6 |
| Arson | 1 | 2.6 |
| Violent Crime | 34 | 87.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 28 | 72.1 |
| Rape | 3 | 7.7 |
| Robbery | 3 | 7.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 35,574 | 70.3 | 910.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 37,140 | 83.5 | 659.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 38,528 | 51.9 | 552.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 35,862 | 58.6 | 563.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 38,809 | 87.6 | 548.8 |
San Luis Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind San Luis's 247 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Arizona cities closest to San Luis in population. Their populations run from 35,815 to 48,680, against 38,809 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
San Luis sits at 87.6/100K violent (grade A); the Arizona cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
San Luis at 87.6/100K violent and 548.8/100K property - matched below outside Arizona (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
87.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
548.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+49.5% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, San Luis reported 34 violent crimes and 213 property crimes, for a total of 247 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, San Luis's violent crime rate increased by 49.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 2.6%.
The most common crime type in San Luis is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.5% of all reported crimes (152 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: San Luis 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how San Luis's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 San Luis, AZ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. San Luis is scored in the mid-size municipal band (38,809 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.