County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Calaveras County, CA
Calaveras County (45,292 people) sits in the mid-size county band in California. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Calaveras County, CA reported 356 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Calaveras County, CA agencies reported 161 violent and 418 property offenses. That equals about 356 violent and 923 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
161 violent offenses
356/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Calaveras County, CA
Position in the state cohort
Calaveras County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable California counties
At 355.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Calaveras County ranks 9 of 56 — above 47 of the 55 other California counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +205.3% against the cohort median of 116.4. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 76.1% of reported property offenses in Calaveras County, against a cohort median of 65.6%. The remainder is burglary (83) and motor vehicle theft (17). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 322.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 355.5 in 2024 (+10.3%). The highest observed value was 536.5 in 2022 and the lowest 322.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
418
Burglary
83
Larceny-Theft
318
Motor Vehicle Theft
17
Arson
5
Violent Crime
161
Murder
1
Rape
24
Robbery
12
Aggravated Assault
124
Reporting Agency
Calaveras County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Calaveras County's crime figures on this page originate from Calaveras County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Counties in California
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.