Sebastopol, CA has a C safety grade (44/100) with a violent crime rate of 423 per 100,000, 20% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Sebastopol is a small municipal reporter (7,336 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with CA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Sebastopol, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 20% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sebastopol, CA shows violent crime at 422.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,581.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 20% above 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 207.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 422.6 in 2024 (+103.3%). The highest observed value was 459.9 in 2022 and the lowest 207.9 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Sebastopol's 422.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are El Monte (423.2), Yuba City (423.8), McFarland (421.2), San Luis Obispo (424.4). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 87.1% of reported property offenses in Sebastopol, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (11) and motor vehicle theft (4). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 422.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sebastopol ranks 174 of 458 — above 284 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +28.6% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 21.1% of the 147 Part I offenses reported in Sebastopol for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 4.0 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 Sebastopol'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 1.9 Census sq mi, Sebastopol logged 61.6 property and 16.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Sebastopol's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 147 offenses; mix index 5,074).
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Sebastopol offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 116 | 1581.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 101 | 1376.8 |
| Burglary | 11 | 149.9 |
| Arson | 5 | 68.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 54.5 |
| Violent Crime | 31 | 422.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 24 | 327.2 |
| Rape | 4 | 54.5 |
| Robbery | 3 | 40.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 7,697 | 207.9 | 2364.6 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 7,605 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,393 | 459.9 | 1731.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 7,248 | 358.7 | 1793.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,336 | 422.6 | 1581.2 |
Sebastopol Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sebastopol's 147 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Sebastopol in population. Their populations run from 7,171 to 7,458, against 7,336 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Sebastopol sits at 422.6/100K violent (grade C); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Sebastopol reported 31 violent crimes and 116 property crimes, for a total of 147 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Sebastopol's violent crime rate increased by 17.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.8%.
The most common crime type in Sebastopol is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.7% of all reported crimes (101 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Sebastopol is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Sebastopol's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Sebastopol, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
Bulk download: city crime dataset (CSV/JSON)
Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Sebastopol is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (7,336 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.