Simi Valley, CA has a A safety grade (79/100) with a violent crime rate of 129 per 100,000, 63% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Simi Valley, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 124,707 residents, Simi Valley 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.
Simi Valley, CA is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 63% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Simi Valley, CA shows violent crime at 129.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 923.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 63% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
A safety grade
129.1/100K violent
923.8/100K property
-63% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Simi Valley, CA
Position in the state cohort
Simi Valley reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities
At 129.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Simi Valley ranks 397 of 458 — above 61 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -61.2% 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.
Comparable rate records
Simi Valley's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Simi Valley's 129.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Camarillo (128.8), Del Mar (130.2), Carmel (130.3), Walnut (127.3). 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
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 12.3% of the 1,313 Part I offenses reported in Simi Valley for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 4.9 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 132.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 129.1 in 2024 (-2.8%). The highest observed value was 134.5 in 2023 and the lowest 96.3 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Simi Valley'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.
Simi Valley's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 41.5 Census sq mi, Simi Valley logged 27.7 property and 3.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Simi Valley's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 1,313 offenses; mix index 4,885).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (41.5 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
-6.3%
985.9 → 923.8/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-4%
134.5 → 129.1/100K
Property offenses lead Simi Valley's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
1,152
923.8
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
891
714.5
-
Burglary
155
124.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
106
85
-
Arson
8
6.4
-
Violent Crime
161
129.1
476.8
Aggravated Assault
108
86.6
-
Robbery
31
24.9
-
Rape
19
15.2
-
Murder
3
2.4
-
Simi Valley 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.
Simi Valley 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
Simi Valley Police Department
Reporting agency for Simi Valley NIBRS-participating
Simi Valley Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Simi Valley's 1,313 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Simi Valley in population. Their populations run from 117,675 to 131,966, against 124,707 here. Or use our
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Simi Valley at 129.1/100K violent and 923.8/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Simi Valley reported 161 violent crimes and 1,152 property crimes, for a total of 1,313 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Simi Valley?
From 2023 to 2024, Simi Valley's violent crime rate decreased by 4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.3%.
What is the most common crime in Simi Valley?
The most common crime type in Simi Valley is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.9% of all reported crimes (891 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Simi Valley'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 Simi Valley, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.