West Covina, CA has a C safety grade (58/100) with a violent crime rate of 239 per 100,000, 32% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
West Covina, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 104,467 residents, West Covina 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.
West Covina, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 32% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, West Covina, CA shows violent crime at 239.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,098.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 32% 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
239.3/100K violent
2098.3/100K property
-32% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for West Covina, CA
Comparable rate records
West Covina's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to West Covina's 239.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Brentwood (241.8), Pleasant Hill (235.5), Capitola (243.2), Buellton (243.2). 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
West Covina sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 239.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, West Covina ranks 304 of 458 — above 154 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -28.2% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 196.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 239.3 in 2024 (+22.0%). The highest observed value was 412.5 in 2022 and the lowest 196.2 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 10.2% of the 2,442 Part I offenses reported in West Covina for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 6.9 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 West Covina'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.
West Covina's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 16 Census sq mi, West Covina logged 136.7 property and 15.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
West Covina's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 2,442 offenses; mix index 4,271).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (16 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-31.7%
350.4 → 239.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
-11.8%
2380.3 → 2098.3/100K
Property offenses lead West Covina's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
2,192
2098.3
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,511
1446.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
372
356.1
-
Burglary
309
295.8
-
Arson
14
13.4
-
Violent Crime
250
239.3
352
Aggravated Assault
154
147.4
-
Robbery
76
72.8
-
Rape
17
16.3
-
Murder
3
2.9
-
West Covina Crime Trend (2020-2024)
West Covina property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
West Covina Police Department
Reporting agency for West Covina NIBRS-participating
West Covina Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind West Covina's 2,442 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.
Similar-Size Cities in California
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West Covina at 239.3/100K violent and 2,098.3/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, West Covina reported 250 violent crimes and 2,192 property crimes, for a total of 2,442 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in West Covina?
From 2023 to 2024, West Covina's violent crime rate decreased by 31.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.8%.
What is the most common crime in West Covina?
The most common crime type in West Covina is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.9% of all reported crimes (1,511 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: West Covina'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 West Covina, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.