Yuba City, CA has a C safety grade (43/100) with a violent crime rate of 424 per 100,000, 20% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Yuba City, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 68,200 residents, Yuba City 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.
Yuba City, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 20% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Yuba City, CA shows violent crime at 423.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,658.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 20% 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.
C safety grade
423.8/100K violent
1658.4/100K property
+20% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Yuba City, CA
Comparable rate records
Yuba City's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Yuba City's 423.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are El Monte (423.2), San Luis Obispo (424.4), Hemet (424.8), Sebastopol (422.6). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 360.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 423.8 in 2024 (+17.6%). The highest observed value was 535.3 in 2022 and the lowest 42.1 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
Yuba City sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 423.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Yuba City ranks 172 of 458 — above 286 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +29.0% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 20.4% of the 1,420 Part I offenses reported in Yuba City for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 3.2 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 Yuba City'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.
Yuba City's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 16.6 Census sq mi, Yuba City logged 68.3 property and 17.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Yuba City leans on larceny-theft at 59% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,933.
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (16.6 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
-18.3%
2030.6 → 1658.4/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-5.4%
447.8 → 423.8/100K
Property offenses lead Yuba City's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
1,131
1658.4
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
843
1236.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
173
253.7
-
Burglary
115
168.6
-
Arson
15
22
-
Violent Crime
289
423.8
476.8
Aggravated Assault
184
269.8
-
Robbery
51
74.8
-
Rape
50
73.3
-
Murder
4
5.9
-
Yuba City Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Yuba City property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Yuba City Police Department
Reporting agency for Yuba City NIBRS-participating
Yuba City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Yuba City's 1,420 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.
Similar-Size Cities in California
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Yuba City at 423.8/100K violent and 1,658.4/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Yuba City reported 289 violent crimes and 1,131 property crimes, for a total of 1,420 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Yuba City?
From 2023 to 2024, Yuba City's violent crime rate decreased by 5.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 18.3%.
What is the most common crime in Yuba City?
The most common crime type in Yuba City is larceny-theft, accounting for 59.4% of all reported crimes (843 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Yuba City'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 Yuba City, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.