Crime Grade · FBI UCR Data · 2024
Lake Elsinore, CA Crime Grade
How Lake Elsinore grades for violent crime against every other reporting U.S. city — and against the rest of California — based on the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting data.
National
5/10
vs. all U.S. cities ≥ 25,000 population
California
3/10
vs. California cities ≥ 10,000 population
In 2024, the violent crime rate in Lake Elsinore, CA was 173.3 per 100,000 residents (128 incidents over a population of 73,871). That puts Lake Elsinore Infinity% above the U.S. rate of 0.0 and 64% below the California statewide rate of 478.7.
That ranks Lake Elsinore #1,848 of 3,771 ranked U.S. cities, safer than 51% of them, and #85 of 371 in California. Violent crime is down 25% year over year and down 30% over the last five years.
Lake Elsinore, CA crime — key facts
- National Crime Grade
- B (5/10)
- California Grade
- A (3/10)
- Violent crime rate
- 173.3 / 100k
- National rank
- #1,848 of 3,771
- CA rank
- #85 of 371
- Safer than
- 51% of U.S. cities
- Year over year
- down 25%
- 5-year change
- down 30%
- Population
- 73,871
- Reporting agency
- Lake Elsinore Police Department
- Data year
- 2024 · FBI UCR
Reported by Lake Elsinore Police Department (FBI ORI CA033300X) to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Download the full dataset (CSV) · methodology.
About Lake Elsinore, CA
Also known as
- Laguna
- Machadao
- Laguna Grande
- Etengvo Wumona
- Machado
- Elsinore
- Etengvo
- Wamoma
Location
32 km (20 mi) south of Riverside. (US-T121)
Name history sourced from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) — public-domain federal geographic-names data.
Violent crime rate, 5-year trend
Per 100,000 residents. Lake Elsinore (red), California (blue), U.S. average (gray dashed).
Lake Elsinore vs. U.S., 2024 — by offense
Rates per 100,000 residents for each offense category.
Full data, last 5 years
Rates per 100,000 residents. Raw counts in parentheses.
| Offense | 2019 | 2020 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 246.2(173) | 279.2(199) | 191.1(139) | 231.1(168) | 173.3(128) |
| Murder | 4.3(3) | 2.8(2) | 0.0(0) | 0.0(0) | 2.7(2) |
| Rape | 4.3(3) | 11.2(8) | 12.4(9) | 15.1(11) | 12.2(9) |
| Robbery | 61.2(43) | 78.6(56) | 46.7(34) | 59.2(43) | 66.3(49) |
| Aggravated assault | 176.5(124) | 186.6(133) | 132.0(96) | 156.8(114) | 92.1(68) |
| Property crime | 2859.3(2,009) | 2316.1(1,651) | 2484.5(1,807) | 2158.3(1,569) | 1857.3(1,372) |
| Burglary | 331.6(233) | 272.1(194) | 349.2(254) | 350.8(255) | 197.6(146) |
| Larceny | 2005.4(1,409) | 1582.4(1,128) | 1669.2(1,214) | 1451.3(1,055) | 1444.4(1,067) |
| Motor vehicle theft | 516.6(363) | 457.3(326) | 463.4(337) | 353.5(257) | 211.2(156) |
How the Crime Grade is calculated
- What is the source of the Lake Elsinore, CA Crime Grade?
- FBI Uniform Crime Reporting via the Crime Data Explorer. Agency-level data, pulled directly. No third-party aggregators, no proprietary score.
- What metric does the Lake Elsinore Crime Grade use?
- Violent crime rate per 100,000 residents (murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault), most recent fully-reported year.
- How is the national decile for Lake Elsinore calculated?
- Lake Elsinore's rate placed against all FBI-reporting U.S. cities with population ≥ 25,000. 1 = safest.
- How is the California state decile calculated?
- Same calculation restricted to California cities with population ≥ 10,000.
- How do decile scores convert to a letter grade?
- 1–3 = A · 4–5 = B · 6–7 = C · 8 = D · 9–10 = F.
- How often is the Lake Elsinore Crime Grade refreshed?
- Twice a year. The FBI typically releases the prior year's full data each September.
- What are the limits of this Crime Grade?
- The FBI relies on local agency reporting. Rates reflect what was reported, not what occurred.
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