At what dollar amount does theft become a felony?

$750 is the general line. At or above it, theft is grand theft and a felony.

The exception people don't know about. Where property is taken from a dwelling or from the unenclosed curtilage of a dwelling — the grounds, yard, and outbuildings directly adjacent to and habitually used with the home — the felony threshold is dramatically lower. The Legislature reduced that threshold again in 2024.

That means a modest item taken from a porch, a driveway, or a yard can be charged as a felony where the same item taken from a store would be a misdemeanor.

Package theft is the obvious application, and it's charged this way.

There's also the category of property that is grand theft regardless of value at all, and the aggregation rules that allow multiple smaller thefts to be combined to reach a felony threshold.

So the honest answer is that $750 is the headline number and it isn't the only one.