Torrance, CA has a C safety grade (45/100) with a violent crime rate of 311 per 100,000, 12% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 136,899 residents, Torrance 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.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Torrance, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 12% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Torrance, CA shows violent crime at 311.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,775.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 12% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C 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 191.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 311.2 in 2024 (+62.9%). The highest observed value was 311.2 in 2024 and the lowest 17.0 in 2021. 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 Torrance's 311.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Milpitas (313.6), Exeter (314.7), Orange Cove (306.9), Mountain View (306.9). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 10.1% of the 4,226 Part I offenses reported in Torrance for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 7.0 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 311.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Torrance ranks 242 of 458 — above 216 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -6.6% 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 Torrance'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.
Across 20.5 Census sq mi, Torrance logged 185.2 property and 20.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Torrance leans on larceny-theft at 59% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,999.
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Torrance offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (20.5 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 | 3,800 | 2775.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 2,491 | 1819.6 |
| Burglary | 656 | 479.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 653 | 477 |
| Arson | 12 | 8.8 |
| Violent Crime | 426 | 311.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 231 | 168.7 |
| Robbery | 158 | 115.4 |
| Rape | 37 | 27 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 143,421 | 191 | 2050.6 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 141,185 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 140,499 | 262.6 | 2659.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 138,472 | 264.3 | 2685.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 136,899 | 311.2 | 2775.8 |
Torrance Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Torrance's 4,226 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 California cities closest to Torrance in population. Their populations run from 127,560 to 146,090, against 136,899 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Torrance sits at 311.2/100K violent (grade C); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Torrance at 311.2/100K violent and 2,775.8/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
311.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,775.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+17.7% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Torrance reported 426 violent crimes and 3,800 property crimes, for a total of 4,226 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Torrance's violent crime rate increased by 17.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 3.4%.
The most common crime type in Torrance is larceny-theft, accounting for 58.9% of all reported crimes (2,491 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Torrance'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.
Large-city rate methodology for how Torrance's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Torrance, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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