Woodland, CA has a B safety grade (60/100) with a violent crime rate of 275 per 100,000, 22% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Woodland, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 61,177 residents, Woodland 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.
Woodland, CA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 22% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Woodland, CA shows violent crime at 274.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,418.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 22% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
274.6/100K violent
1418.8/100K property
-22% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Woodland, CA
Comparable rate records
Woodland's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Woodland's 274.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Patterson (274.6), Monterey Park (274.1), Garden Grove (276.6), Moreno Valley (272.5). 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 371.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 274.6 in 2024 (-26.1%). The highest observed value was 382.7 in 2023 and the lowest 193.6 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Woodland sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 274.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Woodland ranks 276 of 458 — above 182 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -17.6% 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 Woodland'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.
Woodland's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 15.3 Census sq mi, Woodland logged 56.7 property and 11 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Woodland's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 1,036 offenses; mix index 4,249).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (15.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-33.4%
2130.7 → 1418.8/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-28.2%
382.7 → 274.6/100K
Property offenses lead Woodland's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
868
1418.8
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
643
1051
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
153
250.1
-
Burglary
72
117.7
-
Arson
6
9.8
-
Violent Crime
168
274.6
476.8
Aggravated Assault
111
181.4
-
Robbery
37
60.5
-
Rape
15
24.5
-
Murder
5
8.2
-
Woodland Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Woodland 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
Woodland Police Department
Reporting agency for Woodland NIBRS-participating
Woodland Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Woodland's 1,036 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Woodland in population. Their populations run from 60,208 to 62,089, against 61,177 here. Or use our
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Woodland at 274.6/100K violent and 1,418.8/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Woodland reported 168 violent crimes and 868 property crimes, for a total of 1,036 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Woodland?
From 2023 to 2024, Woodland's violent crime rate decreased by 28.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 33.4%.
What is the most common crime in Woodland?
The most common crime type in Woodland is larceny-theft, accounting for 62.1% of all reported crimes (643 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Woodland'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 Woodland, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.