Wildomar, CA has a A safety grade (81/100) with a violent crime rate of 102 per 100,000, 71% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Wildomar (37,145 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then CA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Wildomar, CA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 71% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Wildomar, CA shows violent crime at 102.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,020.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 71% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 102.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Wildomar ranks 414 of 458 — above 44 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -69.3% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Wildomar's 102.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Thousand Oaks (102.2), Solana Beach (103.2), Rolling Hills Estates (100.5), Atherton (104.3). 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 153.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 102.3 in 2024 (-33.3%). The highest observed value was 198.0 in 2023 and the lowest 102.3 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 9.1% of the 417 Part I offenses reported in Wildomar for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 8.0 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.
Property counts dominate Wildomar'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 23.7 Census sq mi, Wildomar logged 16 property and 1.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Wildomar's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (59% of 417 offenses; mix index 4,034).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Wildomar offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (23.7 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 | 379 | 1020.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 246 | 662.3 |
| Burglary | 67 | 180.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 66 | 177.7 |
| Arson | 2 | 5.4 |
| Violent Crime | 38 | 102.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 27 | 72.7 |
| Robbery | 6 | 16.2 |
| Rape | 4 | 10.8 |
| Murder | 1 | 2.7 |
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 · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 37,808 | 153.4 | 1102.9 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 37,024 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 37,463 | 117.4 | 1809.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 37,366 | 198 | 1351.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 37,145 | 102.3 | 1020.3 |
Wildomar Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Wildomar's 417 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Wildomar in population. Their populations run from 36,056 to 38,210, against 37,145 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Wildomar sits at 102.3/100K violent (grade A); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Wildomar at 102.3/100K violent and 1,020.3/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
102.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,020.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-48.3% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Wildomar reported 38 violent crimes and 379 property crimes, for a total of 417 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Wildomar's violent crime rate decreased by 48.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 24.5%.
The most common crime type in Wildomar is larceny-theft, accounting for 59.0% of all reported crimes (246 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Wildomar figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Wildomar's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Wildomar, CA 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. Wildomar is scored in the mid-size municipal band (37,145 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.