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Safety in Lemoore · FBI data, 2023–2025

Lemoore reports more crime per resident than 69% of U.S. towns

On crimes reported to the FBI by Lemoore’s police in 2023–2025, it grades C for safety: #184 of 416 graded towns in California.

Violent crime
4.2
per 1,000 a year · Below rest of CA (4.9)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
11.3
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of CA (21.4)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
1,254
341 violent · 913 property
2023–2025
Trend
→ Steady
2023 to 2025
within ordinary swings

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 · In brief

What stands out about safety in Lemoore

Among California towns, closer to the middle

California’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Lemoore’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 56% of the 416 California towns we grade, against 31% nationally. Safety Grade ↓

Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Lemoore’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; property crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its property rate (11.3) 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.

Where Lemoore sits
C− Violent 4.2B− Property 11.3
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 31%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
California towns we grade (416)Less crime than 56% · #184 of 416
Places of 25,000–100,000 people (1,371)Less crime than 40%
A firm grade. Built on 1,254 reported crimes over three years; ordinary year-to-year swings wouldn’t change the letter.

How TownRatings grades safety →

1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 10 property crimes reported

And about 5 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

Property crime (9.9)Violent crime (4.6)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Lemoore4.6
Rest of CA4.3
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Lemoore9.9
Rest of CA18.5
U.S. (FBI)15.5

Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

Lemoore’s police reported 341 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 4.2 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the rest of California and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

Trend

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 California.

Show as a table
YearLemoore propertyRest of California propertyLemoore violentRest of California violent
202215.924.84.55.1
202313.125.03.95.4
202410.820.84.14.9
20259.918.54.64.3

Crimes per 1,000 residents

What gets reported

391 crimes reported in 2025

124 violent and 267 property, as reported to the FBI by Lemoore’s police.

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft198
Burglary38
Vehicle theft31
Aggravated assault100
Robbery8
Rape15
Homicide1
Arson3
124
violent crimes
267
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

On the roads

Three people died in crashes on Lemoore’s roads in 2019–2023

Lemoore had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died; 2 were pedestrians.

That is fewer than is typical for California towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (5.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Lemoore’s size would see about 8 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Lemoore’s own rate (2.2) is context, not a ranking.

3
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
2
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
2.2
per 100,000 a year · California towns of 25,000–100,000: 5.6

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.

Next door

Lemoore and its neighbors

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

Lemoore
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
LemooreC4.211.3

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

California towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
LemooreC4.211.3
WalnutB−1.315.5
Lemon GroveC4.611.2
GaltC4.014.3
SangerC4.911.8
ReedleyC−6.38.8

The five graded California towns closest to Lemoore’s population (27,291), by grade.

How to read these numbers

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 Lemoore. 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 Lemoore’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (27,042 in 2025); our figure for Lemoore is 27,291 (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 Lemoore

Is Lemoore, CA safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Lemoore reports more crime per resident than 69% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #184 of 416 in California. Its police reported 4.2 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 Lemoore?

4.2 violent and 11.3 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.

Is crime going up or down in Lemoore?

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 Lemoore in 2025?

Lemoore’s police reported 1 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 3.7 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.

Who polices Lemoore?

Lemoore’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Lemoore”. 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.