Soledad, CA has a B safety grade (70/100) with a violent crime rate of 257 per 100,000, 27% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Soledad (23,708 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then CA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Soledad, CA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 27% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Soledad, CA shows violent crime at 257.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 527.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 27% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 161.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 257.3 in 2024 (+59.3%). The highest observed value was 353.5 in 2021 and the lowest 161.5 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 Soledad's 257.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Rohnert Park (258.0), San Bruno (256.5), Santee (254.4), San Jacinto (254.2). 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 32.8% of the 186 Part I offenses reported in Soledad for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 15.7 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
At 257.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Soledad ranks 287 of 458 — above 171 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -22.8% 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.
Property counts dominate Soledad'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 4.5 Census sq mi, Soledad logged 28 property and 13.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Soledad leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,200.
Violent offenses are 33% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Soledad offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.5 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 | 125 | 527.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 90 | 379.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 22 | 92.8 |
| Burglary | 13 | 54.8 |
| Arson | 1 | 4.2 |
| Violent Crime | 61 | 257.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 47 | 198.2 |
| Rape | 9 | 38 |
| Robbery | 5 | 21.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 26,000 | 161.5 | 523.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 25,175 | 353.5 | 611.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 24,811 | 302.3 | 749.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 23,944 | 284 | 522.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 23,708 | 257.3 | 527.2 |
Soledad Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Soledad's 186 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 California cities closest to Soledad in population. Their populations run from 22,988 to 24,817, against 23,708 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Soledad sits at 257.3/100K violent (grade B); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Soledad at 257.3/100K violent and 527.2/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
257.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
527.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Soledad reported 61 violent crimes and 125 property crimes, for a total of 186 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Soledad's violent crime rate decreased by 9.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 1%.
The most common crime type in Soledad is larceny-theft, accounting for 48.4% of all reported crimes (90 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Soledad 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 Soledad's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Soledad, CA 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. Soledad is scored in the mid-size municipal band (23,708 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.