Yreka, CA has a F safety grade (9/100) with a violent crime rate of 704 per 100,000, 100% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Yreka is a small municipal reporter (7,813 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with CA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Yreka, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 100% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Yreka, CA shows violent crime at 704 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,444.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 100% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 704.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Yreka ranks 53 of 458 — above 405 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +114.3% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Yreka's 704.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Gardena (703.3), Chico (699.2), Atwater (710.4), National City (695.6). 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 534.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 704.0 in 2024 (+31.8%). The highest observed value was 1500.3 in 2022 and the lowest 331.5 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 88.5% of reported property offenses in Yreka, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (10) and motor vehicle theft (12). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 22.4% of the 246 Part I offenses reported in Yreka for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 5.3 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 Yreka'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 10 Census sq mi, Yreka logged 19.1 property and 5.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Yreka's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 246 offenses; mix index 5,057).
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Yreka offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10 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 | 191 | 2444.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 169 | 2163.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 12 | 153.6 |
| Burglary | 10 | 128 |
| Arson | 9 | 115.2 |
| Violent Crime | 55 | 704 |
| Aggravated Assault | 40 | 512 |
| Rape | 9 | 115.2 |
| Robbery | 6 | 76.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021, 2023 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 7,489 | 534.1 | 2964.3 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 7,475 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,865 | 1500.3 | 4717.1 |
| 2023 | Insufficient reporting | 7,844 | - | - |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,813 | 704 | 2444.6 |
Yreka Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Yreka's 246 reported offenses (3-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 Yreka in population. Their populations run from 7,747 to 8,092, against 7,813 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Yreka sits at 704/100K violent (grade F); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Yreka reported 55 violent crimes and 191 property crimes, for a total of 246 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Yreka's violent crime rate increased by 112.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 117.9%.
The most common crime type in Yreka is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.7% of all reported crimes (169 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Yreka 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 Yreka's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Yreka, 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. Yreka is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (7,813 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.