Santa Rosa, CA has a C safety grade (54/100) with a violent crime rate of 343 per 100,000, 3% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Santa Rosa, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 175,147 residents, Santa Rosa 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 Rosa, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 3% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Santa Rosa, CA shows violent crime at 342.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,320 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 3% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
342.6/100K violent
1320/100K property
-3% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Santa Rosa, CA
Comparable rate records
Santa Rosa's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Santa Rosa's 342.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Cloverdale (342.3), Loma Linda (341.5), Delano (343.8), Coronado (345.1). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 516.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 342.6 in 2024 (-33.6%). The highest observed value was 516.0 in 2020 and the lowest 335.9 in 2023. 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 20.6% of the 2,912 Part I offenses reported in Santa Rosa for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 3.5 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.
Position in the state cohort
Santa Rosa sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 342.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Santa Rosa ranks 226 of 458 — above 232 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +4.3% 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 counts dominate Santa Rosa'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 Rosa's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 42.5 Census sq mi, Santa Rosa logged 54.3 property and 14.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Santa Rosa leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,543.
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (42.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-11.7%
1495 → 1320/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+2%
335.9 → 342.6/100K
Property offenses lead Santa Rosa's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
2,312
1320
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
1,610
919.2
-
Burglary
405
231.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
297
169.6
-
Arson
26
14.8
-
Violent Crime
600
342.6
476.8
Aggravated Assault
363
207.3
-
Rape
118
67.4
-
Robbery
117
66.8
-
Murder
2
1.1
-
Santa Rosa 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 Rosa 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
Santa Rosa Police Department
Reporting agency for Santa Rosa NIBRS-participating
Santa Rosa Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Santa Rosa's 2,912 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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Santa Rosa at 342.6/100K violent and 1,320/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Santa Rosa reported 600 violent crimes and 2,312 property crimes, for a total of 2,912 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Santa Rosa?
From 2023 to 2024, Santa Rosa's violent crime rate increased by 2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.7%.
What is the most common crime in Santa Rosa?
The most common crime type in Santa Rosa is larceny-theft, accounting for 55.3% of all reported crimes (1,610 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Santa Rosa'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 Rosa, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.