San Pablo, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 78% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, San Pablo, CA shows violent crime at 626.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,508.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 78% 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
626.3/100K violent
2508.6/100K property
+78% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for San Pablo, CA
Comparable rate records
San Pablo's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to San Pablo's 626.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Greenfield (631.2), Williams (620.3), Etna (619.2), Angels Camp (634.8). 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.
Position in the state cohort
San Pablo reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities
At 626.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, San Pablo ranks 78 of 458 — above 380 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +90.7% 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 51.6% of reported property offenses in San Pablo, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (89) and motor vehicle theft (287). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 539.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 626.3 in 2024 (+16.2%). The highest observed value was 742.9 in 2022 and the lowest 518.5 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate San Pablo'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.
San Pablo's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 2.6 Census sq mi, San Pablo logged 296.1 property and 73.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
San Pablo leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,847.
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+20.8%
518.5 → 626.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
-19.6%
3120.8 → 2508.6/100K
Property offenses lead San Pablo's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
777
2508.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
401
1294.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
287
926.6
-
Burglary
89
287.3
-
Arson
19
61.3
-
Violent Crime
194
626.3
352
Aggravated Assault
109
351.9
-
Robbery
70
226
-
Rape
14
45.2
-
Murder
1
3.2
-
San Pablo 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 Pablo 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 Pablo Police Department
Reporting agency for San Pablo NIBRS-participating
San Pablo Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind San Pablo's 971 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 Pablo at 626.3/100K violent and 2,508.6/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, San Pablo reported 194 violent crimes and 777 property crimes, for a total of 971 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in San Pablo?
From 2023 to 2024, San Pablo's violent crime rate increased by 20.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 19.6%.
What is the most common crime in San Pablo?
The most common crime type in San Pablo is larceny-theft, accounting for 41.3% of all reported crimes (401 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: San Pablo 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 San Pablo, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.