Photo: Mike · CC BY 2.0Crime per resident in Crescent City runs higher than in almost every U.S. town
Violent crime here is higher than in 99% of U.S. towns; property crime, higher than in 99%. Per resident, the graded crimes were down 41% from 2023 to 2025. Counting crimes Crescent City’s police reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades D− for safety: #411 of 416 graded towns in California. What’s more, its police logs show 12.5 violent crimes and 53.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the rest of California the numbers are 4.8 and 21.4.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of CA” is every other California 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 Crescent City
A job center
Crescent City has 3,810 jobs based in town for 6,002 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
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 Crescent City’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 higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Crescent City property | Rest of California property | Crescent City violent | Rest of California violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 60.5 | 24.8 | 12.2 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 62.2 | 24.9 | 14.6 | 5.4 |
| 2024 | 64.6 | 20.8 | 13.9 | 4.9 |
| 2025 | 36.0 | 18.5 | 9.4 | 4.3 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
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 California.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Crescent City | Rest of California | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 12.2 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 14.6 | 5.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 13.9 | 4.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 9.4 | 4.3 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Crescent City’s police reported 216 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 12.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.8 in the rest of California and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Crescent City 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 9 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
279 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.
58 violent and 221 property, as reported to the FBI by Crescent City’s police.
No one died in a crash on Crescent City’s roads in 2019–2023
That is about what is typical for California towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (5.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Crescent City’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Crescent City’s own rate (0.0) 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.
Crescent City and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crescent City | D− | 12.5 | 53.6 |
| Bertsch-Oceanview | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Bertsch-Oceanview is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
California towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crescent City | D− | 12.5 | 53.6 |
| Villa Park | A− | 0.4 | 6.9 |
| Holtville | B+ | 1.6 | 4.8 |
| Solvang | B+ | 1.0 | 8.7 |
| Gustine | C+ | 3.5 | 8.1 |
| Dos Palos | C− | 5.8 | 15.5 |
The five graded California towns closest to Crescent City’s population (6,002), 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 Crescent City. 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 Crescent City’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (6,146 in 2025); our figure for Crescent City is 6,002 (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 Crescent City
Is Crescent City, CA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Crescent City reports more crime per resident than 99% of U.S. towns, a D− Safety Grade and #411 of 416 in California. Its police reported 12.5 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.8 in the rest of California and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Crescent City?
12.5 violent and 53.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of California reports 4.8 and 21.4; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Crescent City?
Crescent City’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Crescent City”. 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.