Show Low, AZ has a F safety grade (10/100) with a violent crime rate of 737 per 100,000, 109% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Show Low (12,341 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
Show Low, AZ carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 109% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Show Low, AZ shows violent crime at 737.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,260.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 109% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 737.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Show Low ranks 6 of 64 — above 58 of the 63 other Arizona cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +189.6% against the cohort median of 254.7. 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 Show Low's 737.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Phoenix (799.6), Globe (810.5), Winslow (813.2), St. Johns (628.2). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 24.6% of the 370 Part I offenses reported in Show Low for 2024, against a median of 14.3% across comparable Arizona cities — a gap of 10.3 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 650.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 737.4 in 2024 (+13.3%). The highest observed value was 769.9 in 2023 and the lowest 599.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Show Low'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 65.5 Census sq mi, Show Low logged 4.3 property and 1.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Show Low's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 370 offenses; mix index 4,568).
Violent offenses are 25% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Show Low offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (65.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 279 | 2260.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 234 | 1896.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 24 | 194.5 |
| Burglary | 21 | 170.2 |
| Arson | 2 | 16.2 |
| Violent Crime | 91 | 737.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 82 | 664.5 |
| Rape | 4 | 32.4 |
| Robbery | 3 | 24.3 |
| Murder | 2 | 16.2 |
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 | 11,527 | 650.6 | 2732.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 11,670 | 599.8 | 2356.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,157 | 641.6 | 2007.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 12,210 | 769.9 | 2088.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,341 | 737.4 | 2260.8 |
Show Low Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Show Low's 370 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 Show Low in population. Their populations run from 9,861 to 15,359, against 12,341 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Show Low sits at 737.4/100K violent (grade F); the Arizona cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Show Low at 737.4/100K violent and 2,260.8/100K property - matched below outside Arizona (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
737.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,260.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Show Low reported 91 violent crimes and 279 property crimes, for a total of 370 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Show Low's violent crime rate decreased by 4.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 8.2%.
The most common crime type in Show Low is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.2% of all reported crimes (234 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Show Low 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 Show Low's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Show Low, 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. Show Low is scored in the mid-size municipal band (12,341 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.