Ukiah is a city of 29,100 in Mendocino County, about 55 miles northwest of downtown Santa Rosa · Updated November 2026
Is Ukiah, CA safe?
Mostly, yes. Crime in Ukiah is low, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of A-, but most US neighborhoods are safer still: Ukiah has more crime than the neighborhoods where 60% of Americans live. Violent and property crime both grade A- here. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Ukiah run from A+ to B-, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 780 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
40% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Ukiah as a whole, and 60% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Ukiah scores 780.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Ukiah, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Ukiah, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Ukiah
Robberies run high for an A-graded city. Ukiah has 0.99 robberies a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of an A-graded US city, the figure is 0.13.
Thefts are uncommon. Ukiah has thefts at about half the US rate: 6.0 a year per 1,000 residents, against 13.1 nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Ukiah
Every part of Ukiah where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Ukiah run from A+ to B-; 32% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Ukiah, the northeast side has the least crime and the center the most.
Is crime going up in Ukiah?
Reported crime in Ukiah has fallen since 2019: violent crime is down 20% and property crime down 27%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 7.0 to 5.6 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 19 to 14 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
UkiahUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Ukiah. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Ukiah
Violent, US
Property, Ukiah
Property, US
2016
+39%
+4%
+46%
+15%
2017
+11%
+4%
+13%
+12%
2018
-14%
+0%
-5%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+7%
+4%
-12%
-8%
2021
+20%
+6%
-15%
-10%
2022
-11%
+5%
-25%
-6%
2023
-13%
+2%
-19%
-7%
2024
-20%
-4%
-27%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Ukiah
CrimeGrade™ estimates Ukiah has about 34 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 8% less than the US as a whole and close to California.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
The largest share of crime reported in Ukiah is assault, about 42% of the total. It also makes up the largest share of what crime costs here.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when crime happens in Ukiah
Ukiah has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Ukiah, 29% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 41% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (51%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (44%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (41%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Stores and businesses (31%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (36%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Streets and sidewalks (36%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Two things set Ukiah apart: it has 2.9 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and a Walk Grade of C- (29 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. Even so, 63% of residents in Ukiah live in car-dependent areas, where most errands take a car. Places like that tend to report more theft, yet theft runs lower here than that would suggest.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.2.9 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 82% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.13.8 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 81% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault.C- (29 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 79% of US city residents
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Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.66% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 80% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.25% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 62% of US city residents
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.4.9% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 61% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Ukiah on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Ukiah
Crime costs Ukiah about $1,241 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, about the same as the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $44 million a year, or $1,509 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$1.6 million
$55
Rape
$780,000
$27
Robbery
$900,000
$31
Assault
$5.6 million
$193
Burglary
$750,000
$26
Theft
$900,000
$31
Vehicle theft
$2.0 million
$69
Arson
$350,000
$12
Vandalism
$970,000
$33
Total
$14 million
$476
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Ukiah means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Ukiah, CA average a SchoolGrade of C-: 31% of students test proficient, against 28% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Ukiah on SchoolGrade
