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Santa Barbara Crime Rate Report (California)

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

The city violent crime rate for Santa Barbara in 2019 was higher than the national violent crime rate average by 14.94% and the city property crime rate in Santa Barbara was higher than the national property crime rate average by 9.45%.

In 2019 the city violent crime rate in Santa Barbara was lower than the violent crime rate in California by 1.15% and the city property crime rate in Santa Barbara was lower than the property crime rate in California by 0.94%.

Property and Violent Crime
Santa Barbara Property Crime vs. State and National Per Capita
Santa Barbara Violent Crime vs. State and National Per Capita

Santa Barbara Crime Statistics
Summary Report

2019 Crime (Actual Data)*Incidents
Aggravated Assault244
Arson15
Burglary254
Larceny and Theft1,686
Motor Vehicle Theft178
Murder and Manslaughter2
Rape72
Robbery82
Crime Rate (Total Incidents)2,641
Property Crime2,118
Violent Crime400
2025 Crime (Projected Data)*Incidents
Aggravated Assault264
Arson22
Burglary73
Larceny and Theft1,756
Motor Vehicle Theft266
Murder and Manslaughter0
Rape115
Robbery76
Crime Rate (Total Incidents)2,609
Property Crime2,086
Violent Crime455

Property and Violent Crime Totals

Santa Barbara Property Crime

Santa Barbara Violent Crime

Actual versus Projected Crime Totals

Santa Barbara Crime 2019

Santa Barbara Crime 2025

City versus State versus National Crime Comparison

Santa Barbara Property Crime vs. State and National Comparison

Santa Barbara Violent Crime vs. State and National Comparison
* The source of actual data on this Santa Barbara, 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 Santa Barbara 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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