County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · violent-led
At 282,424 residents, San Luis Obispo 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).
Data updated 2026-08-24
San Luis Obispo County, CA reported 202 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, San Luis Obispo County, CA agencies reported 569 violent and 566 property offenses. That equals about 202 violent and 200 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 92.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 201.5 in 2024 (+118.8%). The highest observed value was 249.6 in 2023 and the lowest 92.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 50.1% of the 1,135 Part I offenses reported in San Luis Obispo County for 2024, against a median of 29.6% across comparable California counties — a gap of 20.6 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 201.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, San Luis Obispo County ranks 16 of 56 — above 40 of the 55 other California counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +73.0% 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 is 57.8% of reported property offenses in San Luis Obispo County, against a cohort median of 66.2%. The remainder is burglary (223) and motor vehicle theft (16). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
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.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 569 |
| Murder | 1 |
| Rape | 56 |
| Robbery | 12 |
| Aggravated Assault | 500 |
| Property Crime | 566 |
| Burglary | 223 |
| Larceny-Theft | 327 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 16 |
| Arson | 2 |
San Luis Obispo County's crime figures on this page originate from San Luis Obispo 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.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the California counties closest to San Luis Obispo County in population. Their populations run from 211,632 to 281,202, against 282,424 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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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.
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