Stockton, CA has a F safety grade (7/100) with a violent crime rate of 1146 per 100,000, 226% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
At 319,069 residents, Stockton is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against CA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Stockton, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 226% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Stockton, CA shows violent crime at 1,145.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,639.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 226% 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 1145.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Stockton ranks 16 of 458 — above 442 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +248.8% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Stockton's 1145.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lakeport (1179.9), Barstow (1108.1), Emeryville (1231.2), Compton (1271.7). 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 30.3% of the 12,078 Part I offenses reported in Stockton for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 13.2 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 55.8% of reported property offenses in Stockton, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (1,794) and motor vehicle theft (1,931). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1277.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1145.8 in 2024 (-10.3%). The highest observed value was 1277.2 in 2020 and the lowest 981.1 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Stockton'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 very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 63.3 Census sq mi, Stockton logged 133.1 property and 57.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Stockton's 8 active offense types stay diversified (mix index 2,466); larceny-theft still leads at 39%.
Violent offenses are 30% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Stockton offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (63.3 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 | 8,422 | 2639.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 4,697 | 1472.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1,931 | 605.2 |
| Burglary | 1,794 | 562.3 |
| Arson | 162 | 50.8 |
| Violent Crime | 3,656 | 1145.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 2,403 | 753.1 |
| Robbery | 1,073 | 336.3 |
| Rape | 129 | 40.4 |
| Murder | 51 | 16 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 314,981 | 1277.2 | 3040.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 314,764 | 981.1 | 2250.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 323,501 | 1141.3 | 2794.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 322,220 | 1150.5 | 3094.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 319,069 | 1145.8 | 2639.6 |
Stockton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Stockton's 12,078 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 Stockton in population. Their populations run from 224,283 to 416,120, against 319,069 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Stockton sits at 1,145.8/100K violent (grade F); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Stockton at 1,145.8/100K violent and 2,639.6/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,145.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,639.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-0.4% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Stockton reported 3,656 violent crimes and 8,422 property crimes, for a total of 12,078 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Stockton's violent crime rate decreased by 0.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 14.7%.
The most common crime type in Stockton is larceny-theft, accounting for 38.9% of all reported crimes (4,697 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Stockton'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 (very large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Stockton's very large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Stockton, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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