Vacaville, CA has a C safety grade (56/100) with a violent crime rate of 293 per 100,000, 17% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Vacaville, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 102,672 residents, Vacaville 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.
Vacaville, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 17% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Vacaville, CA shows violent crime at 293.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,739.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 17% 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.
C safety grade
293.2/100K violent
1739.5/100K property
-17% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Vacaville, CA
Comparable rate records
Vacaville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Vacaville's 293.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are West Sacramento (293.6), Rancho Cucamonga (293.7), Morro Bay (294.3), Marina (291.0). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 243.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 293.2 in 2024 (+20.6%). The highest observed value was 353.0 in 2023 and the lowest 243.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 79.3% of reported property offenses in Vacaville, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (157) and motor vehicle theft (212). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
Vacaville sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 293.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Vacaville ranks 260 of 458 — above 198 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -12.0% 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 Vacaville'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.
Vacaville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 29.9 Census sq mi, Vacaville logged 59.8 property and 10.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Vacaville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 2,087 offenses; mix index 4,876).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (29.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-16.9%
353 → 293.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-17.6%
2111.3 → 1739.5/100K
Property offenses lead Vacaville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
1,786
1739.5
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
1,417
1380.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
212
206.5
-
Burglary
157
152.9
-
Arson
22
21.4
-
Violent Crime
301
293.2
476.8
Aggravated Assault
202
196.7
-
Robbery
55
53.6
-
Rape
43
41.9
-
Murder
1
1
-
Vacaville 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.
Vacaville property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Vacaville Police Department
Reporting agency for Vacaville NIBRS-participating
Vacaville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Vacaville's 2,087 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.
Similar-Size Cities in California
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Vacaville at 293.2/100K violent and 1,739.5/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Vacaville reported 301 violent crimes and 1,786 property crimes, for a total of 2,087 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Vacaville?
From 2023 to 2024, Vacaville's violent crime rate decreased by 16.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 17.6%.
What is the most common crime in Vacaville?
The most common crime type in Vacaville is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.9% of all reported crimes (1,417 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Vacaville'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 Vacaville, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.