Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Chino Valley records less property crime per head than four in five U.S. towns
The Safety Grade comes out at A−, drawn from crimes Chino Valley’s police reported through 2023 to 2025: #3 of 55 graded towns in Arizona. What’s more, its police logs show 1.0 violent crime and 4.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the rest of Arizona the numbers are 4.4 and 18.7.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of AZ” is every other Arizona city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Chino Valley
Among Arizona towns, higher
Arizona’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Chino Valley’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 95% of the 55 Arizona towns we grade, against 80% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Chino Valley’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Chino Valley | Rest of Arizona | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.0 | 4.9 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.0 | 4.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.8 | 4.6 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.1 | 3.9 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Chino Valley’s police reported 41 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.0 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.4 in the rest of Arizona and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Chino Valley per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Chino Valley property | Rest of Arizona property | Chino Valley violent | Rest of Arizona violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.0 | 22.4 | 1.0 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 3.2 | 20.3 | 1.0 | 4.5 |
| 2024 | 4.7 | 19.5 | 0.8 | 4.6 |
| 2025 | 5.1 | 16.2 | 1.1 | 3.9 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Arizona.
88 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
16 violent and 72 property, as reported to the FBI by Chino Valley’s police.
Four people died in crashes on Chino Valley’s roads in 2019–2023
Chino Valley had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is about what is typical for Arizona towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (8.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Chino Valley’s size would see about 5 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Chino Valley’s own rate (5.9) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Chino Valley and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chino Valley | A− | 1.0 | 4.3 |
| Paulden | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Paulden is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
Arizona towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chino Valley | A− | 1.0 | 4.3 |
| Somerton | A− | 1.1 | 4.1 |
| Paradise Valley | B+ | 0.6 | 9.5 |
| Camp Verde | B− | 1.5 | 11.5 |
| Cottonwood | B− | 2.1 | 11.5 |
| Show Low | D | 6.8 | 23.3 |
The five graded Arizona towns closest to Chino Valley’s population (13,832), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Chino Valley. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Chino Valley’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (14,117 in 2025); our figure for Chino Valley is 13,832 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Chino Valley
Is Chino Valley, AZ safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Chino Valley reports less crime per resident than 80% of U.S. towns, an A− Safety Grade and #3 of 55 in Arizona. Its police reported 1.0 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.4 in the rest of Arizona and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Chino Valley?
1.0 violent and 4.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Arizona reports 4.4 and 18.7; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Chino Valley?
Chino Valley’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Chino Valley”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.