Photo: Ken Lund · CC BY-SA 2.0San Luis reports less crime per resident than 79% of U.S. towns
On crimes reported to the FBI by San Luis’ police in 2023–2025, it grades A− for safety: #4 of 55 graded towns in Arizona.
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 San Luis
Among Arizona towns, higher
Arizona’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so San Luis’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 93% of the 55 Arizona towns we grade, against 79% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind San Luis’ 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
San Luis’ police reported 90 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.8 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 | San Luis | Rest of Arizona | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.5 | 4.9 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.6 | 4.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.9 | 4.6 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.8 | 4.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
For every 1,000 residents, about 5 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.
Reported crime is steady
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.
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| Year | San Luis property | Rest of Arizona property | San Luis violent | Rest of Arizona violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.5 | 22.4 | 0.5 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 5.6 | 20.4 | 0.6 | 4.5 |
| 2024 | 5.5 | 19.6 | 0.9 | 4.6 |
| 2025 | 5.1 | 16.3 | 0.8 | 4.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
244 crimes reported in 2025
35 violent and 209 property, as reported to the FBI by San Luis’ police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
Three people died in crashes on San Luis’s roads in 2019–2023
San Luis had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is fewer than is typical for Arizona towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (7.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of San Luis’s size would see about 14 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so San Luis’s own rate (1.6) 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.
San Luis and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Luis | A− | 0.8 | 5.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Arizona towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Luis | A− | 0.8 | 5.4 |
| Sahuarita | B+ | 0.9 | 9.2 |
| Oro Valley | B+ | 0.6 | 10.7 |
| Sierra Vista | C+ | 2.1 | 15.7 |
| Apache Junction | C | 4.1 | 14.1 |
| Bullhead City | C− | 4.0 | 19.6 |
The five graded Arizona towns closest to San Luis’ population (42,030), 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 San Luis. 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 San Luis’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (41,231 in 2025); our figure for San Luis is 42,030 (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 San Luis
Is San Luis, AZ safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, San Luis reports less crime per resident than 79% of U.S. towns, an A− Safety Grade and #4 of 55 in Arizona. Its police reported 0.8 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 San Luis?
0.8 violent and 5.4 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 San Luis?
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings.
How many homicides were there in San Luis in 2025?
San Luis’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.
Who polices San Luis?
San Luis’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “San Luis”. 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.