Temecula, CA has a B safety grade (70/100) with a violent crime rate of 152 per 100,000, 57% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Temecula, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 110,880 residents, Temecula 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.
Temecula, CA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 57% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Temecula, CA shows violent crime at 151.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,679.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 57% 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
151.5/100K violent
1679.3/100K property
-57% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Temecula, CA
Comparable rate records
Temecula's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Temecula's 151.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Fort Jones (150.4), Manhattan Beach (149.7), Dublin (154.2), Westlake Village (147.9). 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
Temecula reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities
At 151.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Temecula ranks 378 of 458 — above 80 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -54.5% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 8.3% of the 2,030 Part I offenses reported in Temecula for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 8.8 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 higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 127.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 151.5 in 2024 (+19.2%). The highest observed value was 167.8 in 2023 and the lowest 127.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Temecula'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.
Temecula's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 37.2 Census sq mi, Temecula logged 50.1 property and 4.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Temecula's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 2,030 offenses; mix index 5,139).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (37.2 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
-20.1%
2102.4 → 1679.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-9.7%
167.8 → 151.5/100K
Property offenses lead Temecula's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
1,862
1679.3
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
1,415
1276.2
-
Burglary
255
230
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
192
173.2
-
Arson
6
5.4
-
Violent Crime
168
151.5
476.8
Aggravated Assault
104
93.8
-
Robbery
50
45.1
-
Rape
14
12.6
-
Murder
0
0
-
Temecula 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.
Temecula 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
Temecula Police Department
Reporting agency for Temecula Summary Reporting (SRS)
Temecula Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Temecula's 2,030 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Cities in California
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Temecula at 151.5/100K violent and 1,679.3/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Temecula reported 168 violent crimes and 1,862 property crimes, for a total of 2,030 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Temecula?
From 2023 to 2024, Temecula's violent crime rate decreased by 9.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 20.1%.
What is the most common crime in Temecula?
The most common crime type in Temecula is larceny-theft, accounting for 69.7% of all reported crimes (1,415 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Temecula'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 Temecula, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.