Crime in Del Mar, California
Major crime in Del Mar is 33% below the U.S. rate per resident: 51% lower for persons crimes and 29% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.3% 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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Burglary stands out most, at 1.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Del Mar for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
Neighborhoods in Del Mar
Del Mar is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 73; the middle half of residents live where it is between 48 and 73.
- 0–5035.7%
- 50–10064.3%
- 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 on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 9.3% 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.
Del Mar against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
727 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Del Mar; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Del Mar has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Solana Beach (2 mi), is 10% below Del Mar's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Del Mar
What are the most common crimes in Del Mar?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 14 a year), burglary (about 10 a year) and other larceny (about 8 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 1.5 times 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. Del Mar's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Del Mar has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 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: 3,845. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Del Mar, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/del-mar
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Solana Beach2 mi61
- Rancho Santa Fe6 mi39
- Encinitas6 mi60
- Carlsbad11 mi68
- Lake San Marcos12 mi29
- Poway13 mi37
- San Marcos13 mi47
- San Diego14 mi116