Analytics built by: Location, Inc.
Raw data sources: 18,000 local law enforcement agencies in the U.S.
Date(s) & Update Frequency: Reflects 2022 calendar year; released from FBI in Oct. 2023 (latest available). Updated annually. Where is 2023 data?
Methodology: Our nationwide meta-analysis overcomes the issues inherent in any crime database, including non-reporting and reporting errors. This is possible by associating the 9.4 million reported crimes in the U.S, including over 2 million geocoded point locations…. Read more about Scout's Crime Data
With a crime rate of 32 per one thousand residents, Visalia has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 32. Within California, more than 84% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Visalia.
Importantly, when you compare Visalia to other communities of similar population, then Visalia crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how Visalia does relative to all communities in America of all sizes, when NeighborhoodScout compared it to communities of similar population size, its crime rate per thousand residents stands out as higher than most.
Now let us turn to take a look at how Visalia does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Visalia.
From our analysis, we discovered that violent crime in Visalia occurs at a rate higher than in most communities of all population sizes in America. The chance that a person will become a victim of a violent crime in Visalia; such as armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape or murder; is 1 in 200. This equates to a rate of 5 per one thousand inhabitants.
In addition, NeighborhoodScout found that a lot of the crime that takes place in Visalia is property crime. Property crimes that are tracked for this analysis are burglary, larceny over fifty dollars, motor vehicle theft, and arson. In Visalia, your chance of becoming a victim of a property crime is one in 38, which is a rate of 27 per one thousand population.
Importantly, we found that Visalia has one of the highest rates of motor vehicle theft in the nation according to our analysis of FBI crime data. This is compared to communities of all sizes, from the smallest to the largest. In fact, your chance of getting your car stolen if you live in Visalia is one in 155.
(100 is safest)
Violent | Property | Total | |
---|---|---|---|
Number of Crimes |
719 |
3,834 |
4,553 |
Crime Rate
|
4.99 |
26.63 |
31.63 |
Murder | Rape | Robbery | Assault | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Report Total | 9 | 71 | 130 | 509 |
Rate per 1,000 | 0.06 | 0.49 | 0.90 | 3.54 |
Murder | Rape | Robbery | Assault | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Report Total | 21,156 | 133,294 | 220,450 | 893,980 |
Rate per 1,000 | 0.06 | 0.40 | 0.66 | 2.68 |
burglary | theft | motor vehicle theft | |
---|---|---|---|
Report Total | 394 | 2,512 | 928 |
Rate per 1,000 | 2.74 | 17.45 | 6.45 |
burglary | theft | motor vehicle theft | |
---|---|---|---|
Report Total | 899,293 | 4,672,363 | 942,173 |
Rate per 1,000 | 2.70 | 14.02 | 2.83 |