Woodlake, CA has a C safety grade (43/100) with a violent crime rate of 477 per 100,000, 35% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Woodlake is a small municipal reporter (7,970 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with CA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Woodlake, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 35% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Woodlake, CA shows violent crime at 476.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,079 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 35% above 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 155.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 476.8 in 2024 (+205.8%). The highest observed value was 730.9 in 2023 and the lowest 155.9 in 2020. 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 Woodlake's 476.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hayward (477.1), Turlock (475.8), Artesia (475.3), El Cerrito (479.9). 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 30.6% of the 124 Part I offenses reported in Woodlake for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 13.5 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 476.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Woodlake ranks 146 of 458 — above 312 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +45.1% against the cohort median of 328.5. 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 Woodlake'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 2.8 Census sq mi, Woodlake logged 30.2 property and 13.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Woodlake leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,681.
Violent offenses are 31% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Woodlake offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.8 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 | 86 | 1079 |
| Larceny-Theft | 66 | 828.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 11 | 138 |
| Burglary | 9 | 112.9 |
| Arson | 2 | 25.1 |
| Violent Crime | 38 | 476.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 33 | 414.1 |
| Rape | 2 | 25.1 |
| Robbery | 2 | 25.1 |
| Murder | 1 | 12.5 |
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 | 7,697 | 155.9 | 987.4 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 8,001 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,707 | 389.3 | 934.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 7,662 | 730.9 | 1096.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,970 | 476.8 | 1079 |
Woodlake Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Woodlake's 124 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 Woodlake in population. Their populations run from 7,747 to 8,092, against 7,970 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Woodlake sits at 476.8/100K violent (grade C); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Woodlake reported 38 violent crimes and 86 property crimes, for a total of 124 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Woodlake's violent crime rate decreased by 34.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 1.6%.
The most common crime type in Woodlake is larceny-theft, accounting for 53.2% of all reported crimes (66 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Woodlake 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 Woodlake's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Woodlake, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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