Santa Clarita, CA has a B safety grade (73/100) with a violent crime rate of 165 per 100,000, 53% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Santa Clarita, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 221,303 residents, Santa Clarita 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.
Santa Clarita, CA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 53% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Santa Clarita, CA shows violent crime at 165.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,176.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 53% 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
165.4/100K violent
1176.7/100K property
-53% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Santa Clarita, CA
Comparable rate records
Santa Clarita's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Santa Clarita's 165.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Rocklin (164.8), Belmont (164.8), San Juan Capistrano (164.6), Bear Valley (164.6). 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
Santa Clarita reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities
At 165.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Santa Clarita ranks 370 of 458 — above 88 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -50.4% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 131.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 165.4 in 2024 (+26.1%). The highest observed value was 178.4 in 2023 and the lowest 131.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 12.3% of the 2,970 Part I offenses reported in Santa Clarita for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 4.8 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.
Property counts dominate Santa Clarita'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.
Santa Clarita's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 73.6 Census sq mi, Santa Clarita logged 35.4 property and 5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Santa Clarita leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,907.
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (73.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-7.3%
178.4 → 165.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
-4.6%
1233.6 → 1176.7/100K
Property offenses lead Santa Clarita's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
2,604
1176.7
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
1,731
782.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
440
198.8
-
Burglary
433
195.7
-
Arson
21
9.5
-
Violent Crime
366
165.4
476.8
Aggravated Assault
242
109.4
-
Robbery
94
42.5
-
Rape
28
12.7
-
Murder
2
0.9
-
Santa Clarita 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.
Santa Clarita 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
Santa Clarita Police Department
Reporting agency for Santa Clarita Summary Reporting (SRS)
Santa Clarita Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Santa Clarita's 2,970 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
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Santa Clarita at 165.4/100K violent and 1,176.7/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Santa Clarita reported 366 violent crimes and 2,604 property crimes, for a total of 2,970 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Santa Clarita?
From 2023 to 2024, Santa Clarita's violent crime rate decreased by 7.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4.6%.
What is the most common crime in Santa Clarita?
The most common crime type in Santa Clarita is larceny-theft, accounting for 58.3% of all reported crimes (1,731 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Santa Clarita'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 Santa Clarita, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.