Tolleson, AZ has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1008 per 100,000, 186% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Tolleson is a small municipal reporter (7,141 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with AZ and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Tolleson, AZ carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 186% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Tolleson, AZ shows violent crime at 1,008.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 9,158.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 186% 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 1008.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Tolleson ranks 2 of 64 — above 62 of the 63 other Arizona cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +295.9% against the cohort median of 254.7. 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 Tolleson's 1008.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pinetop-Lakeside (1201.1), Winslow (813.2), Globe (810.5), Phoenix (799.6). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1204.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1008.3 in 2024 (-16.3%). The highest observed value was 1204.8 in 2020 and the lowest 41.4 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 9.9% of the 726 Part I offenses reported in Tolleson for 2024, against a median of 14.8% across comparable Arizona cities — a gap of 4.8 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.
Property counts dominate Tolleson'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 5.7 Census sq mi, Tolleson logged 114.1 property and 12.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Tolleson's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 726 offenses; mix index 5,534).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Tolleson offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.7 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 | 654 | 9158.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 529 | 7407.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 88 | 1232.3 |
| Burglary | 37 | 518.1 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 72 | 1008.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 50 | 700.2 |
| Rape | 13 | 182 |
| Robbery | 9 | 126 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2023 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 7,470 | 1204.8 | 12195.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 7,351 | 1033.9 | 11059.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,308 | 1108.4 | 8702.8 |
| 2023 | Insufficient reporting | 7,253 | - | - |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,141 | 1008.3 | 9158.4 |
Tolleson Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Tolleson's 726 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Arizona cities closest to Tolleson in population. Their populations run from 5,019 to 8,362, against 7,141 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Tolleson sits at 1,008.3/100K violent (grade F); the Arizona cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Tolleson reported 72 violent crimes and 654 property crimes, for a total of 726 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Tolleson's violent crime rate increased by 2335.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 8203.2%.
The most common crime type in Tolleson is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.9% of all reported crimes (529 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Tolleson is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Tolleson's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Tolleson, AZ 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. Tolleson is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (7,141 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.