Crime in Bonsall, California
Major crime in Bonsall is 70% below the U.S. rate per resident: 56% lower for persons crimes and 73% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 5.2% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Every crime type in Bonsall is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Bonsall for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
Neighborhoods in Bonsall
Bonsall is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 33; the middle half of residents live where it is between 21 and 33.
- 0–50100.0%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 5.2% in a year; across California it fell 7.4%
Change in expected crimes, with California as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Bonsall against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
1,496 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Bonsall; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Bonsall has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Hidden Meadows (6 mi), is 28% below Bonsall's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Bonsall
What are the most common crimes in Bonsall?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are burglary (about 5 a year), aggravated assault (about 5 a year) and other larceny (about 4 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 18% below the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Bonsall's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Bonsall's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 4,312. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Bonsall, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/bonsall
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Hidden Meadows6 mi22
- Vista6 mi67
- Fallbrook7 mi37
- Oceanside8 mi102
- San Marcos10 mi47
- Valley Center11 mi32
- Lake San Marcos11 mi29
- Carlsbad12 mi68