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San Luis Obispo Crime Rate Report (California)

San Luis Obispo crime statistics report an overall downward trend in crime based on data from 21 years with violent crime increasing and property crime decreasing. Based on this trend, the crime rate in San Luis Obispo for 2025 is expected to be lower than in 2019.

The city violent crime rate for San Luis Obispo in 2019 was higher than the national violent crime rate average by 6.01% and the city property crime rate in San Luis Obispo was higher than the national property crime rate average by 72.56%.

In 2019 the city violent crime rate in San Luis Obispo was lower than the violent crime rate in California by 8.84% and the city property crime rate in San Luis Obispo was higher than the property crime rate in California by 56.18%.

Property and Violent Crime
San Luis Obispo Property Crime vs. State and National Per Capita
San Luis Obispo Violent Crime vs. State and National Per Capita

San Luis Obispo Crime Statistics
Summary Report

2019 Crime (Actual Data)*Incidents
Aggravated Assault114
Arson25
Burglary277
Larceny and Theft1,387
Motor Vehicle Theft74
Murder and Manslaughter0
Rape44
Robbery34
Crime Rate (Total Incidents)1,853
Property Crime1,738
Violent Crime192
2025 Crime (Projected Data)*Incidents
Aggravated Assault161
Arson15
Burglary101
Larceny and Theft1,664
Motor Vehicle Theft90
Murder and Manslaughter0
Rape68
Robbery25
Crime Rate (Total Incidents)1,951
Property Crime1,836
Violent Crime254

Property and Violent Crime Totals

San Luis Obispo Property Crime

San Luis Obispo Violent Crime

Actual versus Projected Crime Totals

San Luis Obispo Crime 2019

San Luis Obispo Crime 2025

City versus State versus National Crime Comparison

San Luis Obispo Property Crime vs. State and National Comparison

San Luis Obispo Violent Crime vs. State and National Comparison
* The source of actual data on this San Luis Obispo, California crime rate report is the FBI Report of Offenses Known to Law Enforcement for the corresponding year or years. Arson numbers are reported inconsistently. Zero values may indicate the data was not available. The projected crime rate data displayed above was generated from the trends and crime data available from previous years of actual reported data. In this case, the San Luis Obispo crime report data for 2025 was projected from 21 years of actual data. The last year of actual available crime data, as reported above, was 2019.

The FBI cautions the data users against comparing yearly statistical data solely on the basis of their population coverage. The comparisons made herein are thus, only meaningful upon further examination of all variables that affect crime in each reported city, state or other reported jurisdicition.



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