County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
San Joaquin County, CA
At 779,233 residents, San Joaquin County is a very large county in California. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
San Joaquin County, CA reported 100 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, San Joaquin County, CA agencies reported 776 violent and 1,849 property offenses. That equals about 100 violent and 237 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
776 violent offenses
100/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for San Joaquin County, CA
Position in the state cohort
San Joaquin County sits mid-pack among comparable California counties
At 99.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, San Joaquin County ranks 34 of 56 — above 22 of the 55 other California counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -23.3% against the cohort median of 129.8. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 105.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 99.6 in 2024 (-5.6%). The highest observed value was 112.0 in 2022 and the lowest 99.6 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a very large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · very large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
1,849
Burglary
452
Larceny-Theft
1,252
Motor Vehicle Theft
145
Arson
42
Violent Crime
776
Murder
5
Rape
71
Robbery
151
Aggravated Assault
549
Reporting Agency
San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
San Joaquin County's crime figures on this page originate from San Joaquin 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
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the California counties closest to San Joaquin County in population. Their populations run from 552,878 to 1,008,654, against 779,233 here. Or launch the
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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.