Sierra Vista, AZ carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 38% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sierra Vista, AZ shows violent crime at 217.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,663.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 38% 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
217.6/100K violent
1663.7/100K property
-38% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Sierra Vista, AZ
Comparable rate records
Sierra Vista's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Arizona cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Sierra Vista's 217.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Kingman (221.1), Cottonwood (223.2), Maricopa (224.8), Prescott Valley (225.0). 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
Sierra Vista sits mid-pack among comparable Arizona cities
At 217.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sierra Vista ranks 39 of 64 — above 25 of the 63 other Arizona cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -16.7% against the cohort median of 261.2. 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 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 193.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 217.6 in 2024 (+12.2%). The highest observed value was 282.8 in 2022 and the lowest 193.9 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 11.6% of the 830 Part I offenses reported in Sierra Vista for 2024, against a median of 14.8% across comparable Arizona cities — a gap of 3.2 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 Sierra Vista'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.
Sierra Vista's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 152.4 Census sq mi, Sierra Vista logged 4.8 property and 0.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Sierra Vista's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 830 offenses; mix index 5,869).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (152.4 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
+2.1%
1629.9 → 1663.7/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-0.1%
217.8 → 217.6/100K
Property offenses lead Sierra Vista's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs AZ
Property Crime
734
1663.7
1786
Larceny-Theft
626
1418.9
-
Burglary
73
165.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
35
79.3
-
Arson
6
13.6
-
Violent Crime
96
217.6
428.6
Aggravated Assault
75
170
-
Robbery
11
24.9
-
Rape
9
20.4
-
Murder
1
2.3
-
Sierra Vista Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Sierra Vista property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Sierra Vista Police Department
Reporting agency for Sierra Vista NIBRS-participating
Sierra Vista Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sierra Vista's 830 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Arizona
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Arizona cities closest to Sierra Vista in population. Their populations run from 36,187 to 51,116, against 44,119 here. Or use our
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Sierra Vista at 217.6/100K violent and 1,663.7/100K property - matched below outside Arizona (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Sierra Vista reported 96 violent crimes and 734 property crimes, for a total of 830 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Sierra Vista?
From 2023 to 2024, Sierra Vista's violent crime rate decreased by 0.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 2.1%.
What is the most common crime in Sierra Vista?
The most common crime type in Sierra Vista is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.4% of all reported crimes (626 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Sierra Vista 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 Sierra Vista, AZ rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.