State crime profile · 2024

Arizona Crime Rates: Safest & Most Dangerous Cities

Crime data for 64 cities and 9 of 15 counties in Arizona (AZ), ranked safest to most dangerous from 127 reporting agencies.

Data updated 2026-09-05

428.6
Violent / 100K
1,786
Property / 100K
64
Cities
9
Counties

Arizona violent crime is 428.6 per 100,000, 22% above the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Arizona records 428.6 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, 22% above the national average (about the 40th-safest of 51 states and D.C.). Statewide averages hide city and county variation; UCR participation is voluntary.

  • 428.6 violent crimes per 100K
  • +22% vs. the U.S. average
  • 40th safest of 51 states & DC
  • 1,786 property crimes per 100K

How safe is Arizona? FBI UCR data snapshot

Arizona (AZ) reported 32,495 violent crimes and 135,423 property crimes in 2024, based on FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program submissions from 127 law enforcement agencies. That translates to a statewide violent crime rate of 428.6 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 1786 per 100,000 against a reporting population of 7,582,384. The PlainCrime dataset indexes 64 Arizona cities and 9 counties, each with their own detail pages and local crime figures drawn from FBI UCR Tables 8 and 10.

The FBI's state-level summary reports violent and property crime as aggregate totals rather than broken out by individual offense type (murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson). For an offense-by-offense breakdown, see the individual city and county pages for Arizona below, which draw on FBI UCR Tables 8 and 10 and do report each offense type separately.

Across 11 years of state-level UCR history (2014–2024), the violent crime rate moved from 383.8 to 428.6 per 100,000, a rise of 11.7%. City-level detail pages within Arizona include safety grades (A+ to F), benchmarks against national averages, per-capita risk estimates, and multi-year trend tables for users comparing specific jurisdictions. All figures above are drawn from FBI UCR 2024 submissions; reporting completeness varies by agency, and the FBI periodically restates prior-year figures as late submissions arrive.

How Arizona ranks nationally

Arizona vs. every U.S. state

Violent crime per 100,000 residents, FBI UCR 2024. Lower is safer.

429 22nd percentile among 51 U.S. states

AZ 0 1,100+ every state & DC, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band of values; taller bars hold more U.S. states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · 2024

Safest cities · Most dangerous cities · Crime trends

Crime Trends

Year Population Violent Crime Rate Property Crime Rate
2024 7,582,384 32,495 428.6 135,423 1786
2023 7,431,344 31,711 426.7 140,204 1886.7
2022 7,359,197 33,002 448.4 157,557 2141
2021 7,276,316 13,298 182.8 72,469 996
2020 7,421,401 35,356 476.4 164,700 2219.3
2019 7,278,717 32,571 447.5 175,760 2414.7
2018 7,171,646 33,531 467.5 192,047 2677.9
2017 7,016,270 35,766 509.8 205,397 2927.4
2016 6,931,071 31,809 458.9 206,881 2984.8
2015 6,828,065 29,918 438.2 206,618 3026
2014 6,731,484 25,838 383.8 211,584 3143.2

Cities in Arizona

Safest cities in Arizona

Cities with 25,000+ residents, lowest violent crime per 100,000, FBI UCR 2024. Hover a bar for the exact rate.

/100K

What this shows Oro Valley is the safest sizeable city in Arizona, at 51.4 violent crimes per 100,000.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024

Highest violent-crime cities in Arizona

Cities with 25,000+ residents, highest violent crime per 100,000, FBI UCR 2024. Hover a bar for the exact rate.

/100K

What this shows Phoenix reports the highest big-city violent-crime rate in Arizona, at 799.6 per 100,000.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024

Phoenix is both volume #1 and rate #1 among 30 Arizona cities with 25,000+ residents in FBI UCR 2024. That non-invert is disclosed, not hidden.

Arizona's largest cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 14 cities; the anchor is ringed. Arizona's largest cities, violent vs. property crime 98 864 Violent crime per 100K → 694 3,578 Property crime per 100K → Phoenix Tucson Mesa Chandler SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME PROPERTY-HEAVY VIOLENT-HEAVY Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are Arizona's statewide averages · the four largest cities are labeled
Read the chart as a list
  • Phoenix: 800 violent, 2325 property per 100,000 (grade F)
  • Tucson: 589 violent, 3313 property per 100,000 (grade F)
  • Mesa: 483 violent, 1465 property per 100,000 (grade D)
  • Chandler: 133 violent, 1504 property per 100,000 (grade B)
  • Gilbert: 132 violent, 968 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Glendale: 488 violent, 2671 property per 100,000 (grade D)
  • Scottsdale: 153 violent, 1875 property per 100,000 (grade B)
  • Peoria: 255 violent, 1205 property per 100,000 (grade B)
  • Tempe: 470 violent, 2894 property per 100,000 (grade D)
  • Surprise: 109 violent, 876 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Goodyear: 182 violent, 1463 property per 100,000 (grade B)
  • Buckeye: 167 violent, 771 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Yuma: 424 violent, 1247 property per 100,000 (grade C)
  • Avondale: 370 violent, 2241 property per 100,000 (grade C)
F

Arizona safety livability score: 28/100

Percentile-benchmarked against all 51 tracked states, 2024 FBI UCR data.

  • Violent crime rate

    428.6/100K · F (22th percentile)

  • Property crime rate

    1786/100K · D (35th percentile)

  • Murder rate

    N/A, dropped from score, weight redistributed

City Population Violent / 100K Grade
Phoenix 1,662,809
799.6
F
Tucson 548,789
588.8
F
Mesa 513,585
482.7
D
Chandler 281,117
133.4
B
Gilbert 277,527
132.2
A
Glendale 255,512
488.4
D
Scottsdale 245,237
152.5
B
Peoria 201,056
254.7
B
Tempe 191,376
470.3
D
Surprise 163,202
109.1
A
Goodyear 116,892
182.2
B
Buckeye 114,513
166.8
A
Yuma 101,989
423.6
C
Avondale 94,911
369.8
C
Queen Creek 82,639
119.8
A
Flagstaff 76,433
463.2
D
Maricopa 75,614
224.8
B
Casa Grande 67,317
410
C
Marana 60,507
115.7
A
Lake Havasu City 59,898
355.6
C
Prescott Valley 51,116
225
B
Oro Valley 48,680
51.4
A
Prescott 48,339
335.1
C
Sierra Vista 44,119
217.6
B
Bullhead City 43,923
455.3
D
Apache Junction 41,994
426.3
C
San Luis 38,809
87.6
A
Sahuarita 37,049
91.8
A
Kingman 36,187
221.1
C
El Mirage 35,815
382.5
C
Florence 23,354
119.9
A
Coolidge 20,276
305.8
C
Nogales 19,686
228.6
C
Eloy 19,594
484.8
C
Payson 16,845
261.2
B
Douglas 15,359
78.1
A
Somerton 14,717
176.7
A
Chino Valley 14,059
78.2
A
Cottonwood 13,441
223.2
B
Camp Verde 12,597
182.6
B
Paradise Valley 12,440
80.4
A
Show Low 12,341
737.4
F
Snowflake-Taylor 11,231
311.6
C
Sedona 9,861
314.4
C
Winslow 8,362
813.2
F
Wickenburg 8,343
107.9
A
Page 7,288
548.8
F
Globe 7,156
810.5
F
Tolleson 7,141
1,008.3
F
Litchfield Park 6,881
101.7
A
Thatcher 5,546
72.1
A
Clarkdale 5,061
19.8
A+
Bisbee 5,019
99.6
A
Pinetop-Lakeside 4,246
1,201.1
F
Williams 3,549
619.9
F
Parker 3,393
353.7
C
St. Johns 3,343
628.2
D
Willcox 3,194
407
C
Colorado City 2,826
318.5
C
Wellton 2,638
37.9
A+
Superior 2,621
267.1
C
Quartzsite 2,382
209.9
C
Fredonia 1,299
0
A+
Jerome 459
435.7
D

Counties in Arizona

9 of 15 Census county-equivalents (60%) appear in FBI Table 10 for this vintage. Missing counties are absent from the FBI source for this year, not dropped by PlainCrime. See national county coverage and methodology.

Largest counties in Arizona, violent crime per 100K

Top 8 counties by population, violent crime per 100,000 residents. Hover a bar for the exact rate.

/100K
Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024
Apache
Gila
Graham
Mohave
Navajo
Pima
Pinal
Yavapai
Yuma

Nationwide peers for Arizona

Similar violent rate (~428.6/100K)

Similar property rate (~1,786/100K)

Nearby States

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Alaska
AK
Arkansas
AR
California
CA
Colorado
CO

Safest cities · Most dangerous · Trends · National rankings · Crime grades · Compare · Methodology

Primary source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States annual release. State-level trends cross-check against the FBI Crime Data Explorer (CDE) API.

Population figures for rate calculations reference U.S. Census Bureau estimates where FBI-reported populations are unavailable. Verify with Census.gov QuickFacts.

Read our methodology , how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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