Photo: Binksternet · Public domainFor violent crime, King City trails 78% of U.S. towns per resident
Annual rates stand at 3.5 violent crimes and 8.7 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 4.9 and 21.4 in the rest of California. Taking everything together, King City scores C+ (#130 of 416 graded towns in California): more crime per resident than 60% of U.S. towns, measured on crimes its police reported between 2023 and 2025. The crimes the grade counts held steady per resident from 2023 to 2025.
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 King City
Among California towns, closer to the middle
California’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so King City’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 69% of the 416 California towns we grade, against 40% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind King City’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Property crime holds King City’s grade up; violent crime pulls it down. Its violent rate (3.5) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Crime in King 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 4 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | King City | Rest of California | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4.8 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 3.4 | 5.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.9 | 4.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
King City’s police reported 148 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the rest of California and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
How crime in King City has moved
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| Year | King City property | Rest of California property | King City violent | Rest of California violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 14.1 | 24.8 | 4.8 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 10.4 | 25.0 | 3.4 | 5.4 |
| 2024 | 6.9 | 20.8 | 2.9 | 4.9 |
| 2025 | 9.0 | 18.5 | 4.3 | 4.3 |
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 California.
186 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.
60 violent and 126 property, as reported to the FBI by King City’s police.
One person died in crashes on King City’s roads in 2019–2023
King City had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died; 1 was a pedestrian.
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 King City’s size would see about 4 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so King City’s own rate (1.5) 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.
King City and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| King City | C+ | 3.5 | 8.7 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
California towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| King City | C+ | 3.5 | 8.7 |
| Mill Valley | B+ | 0.7 | 8.6 |
| Avenal | B− | 3.9 | 2.5 |
| Auburn | B− | 3.1 | 7.4 |
| Grass Valley | D | 6.2 | 20.7 |
| Red Bluff | D− | 12.3 | 43.8 |
The five graded California towns closest to King City’s population (14,002), 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 King 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 King City’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (14,065 in 2025); our figure for King City is 14,002 (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 King City
Is King City, CA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, King City reports more crime per resident than 60% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #130 of 416 in California. Its police reported 3.5 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the rest of California and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in King City?
3.5 violent and 8.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of California reports 4.9 and 21.4; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices King City?
King City’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “King 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.