Photo: Musicoceanfan88 at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Reported crime per resident in Marana fell 29% from 2023 to 2025
Overall, Marana grades B− for safety (#18 of 55 graded towns in Arizona): close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.
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 Marana
Marana reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 4 Arizona towns on Marana’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Tucson (D). Casas Adobes, Picture Rocks and Tucson Mountains are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own. Neighbors ↓
Among Arizona towns, higher
Arizona’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Marana’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 67% of the 55 Arizona towns we grade, against 51% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Marana’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Marana’s grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (14.7) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Marana’s police reported 159 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.9 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.4 in the rest of Arizona and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Marana | Rest of Arizona | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.9 | 4.9 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.8 | 4.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.2 | 4.7 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.6 | 4.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Reported crime is falling
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Arizona.
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| Year | Marana property | Rest of Arizona property | Marana violent | Rest of Arizona violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 22.3 | 22.3 | 0.9 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 18.0 | 20.3 | 0.8 | 4.5 |
| 2024 | 13.5 | 19.5 | 1.2 | 4.7 |
| 2025 | 12.8 | 16.2 | 0.6 | 4.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
For every 1,000 residents, about 13 property crimes reported
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
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.
873 crimes reported in 2025
40 violent and 833 property, as reported to the FBI by Marana’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
22 people died in crashes on Marana’s roads in 2019–2023
Marana had 20 fatal crashes in five years, in which 22 people died; 8 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist. Most of these deaths (11 of 22) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is 7.7 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for Arizona towns of 25,000–100,000 people (7.5, 24 towns).
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.
Marana and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marana | B− | 0.9 | 14.7 |
| Casas Adobes | — | — | — |
| Picture Rocks | — | — | — |
| Tucson Mountains | — | — | — |
| Tucson | D | 4.7 | 27.0 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Casas Adobes, Picture Rocks and Tucson Mountains are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
Arizona towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marana | B− | 0.9 | 14.7 |
| Maricopa | B− | 2.4 | 8.1 |
| Prescott Valley | B− | 2.6 | 7.9 |
| Lake Havasu City | C+ | 3.1 | 12.2 |
| Casa Grande | C− | 4.6 | 15.5 |
| Flagstaff | C− | 4.6 | 21.8 |
The five graded Arizona towns closest to Marana’s population (65,523), by grade.
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 Marana. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Marana’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (65,094 in 2025); our figure for Marana is 65,523 (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 Marana
Is Marana, AZ safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Marana reports less crime per resident than 51% of U.S. towns, a B− Safety Grade and #18 of 55 in Arizona. Its police reported 0.9 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 Marana?
0.9 violent and 14.7 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.
Is crime going up or down in Marana?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
How many homicides were there in Marana in 2025?
Marana’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Marana safer than Tucson?
Tucson reports more crime per resident than Marana: Tucson grades D for safety and Marana B−. Tucson’s police reported 4.7 violent and 27.0 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Marana?
Marana’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Marana”. 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.