Crime in Goleta, California
Major crime in Goleta is 46% below the U.S. rate per resident: 38% lower for persons crimes and 48% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 20.9% 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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Intimidation stands out most, at 25% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Goleta 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
How crime varies across Goleta
The middle half of Goleta residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 20 and 59; the typical (median) resident's is 30. The citywide figure (54) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5067.9%
- 50–10022.2%
- 100–2001.4%
- 200–4008.4%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 20.9% 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.
Goleta against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
678 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Goleta; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Goleta 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, Isla Vista (2 mi), is 49% below Goleta's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Goleta
What are the most common crimes in Goleta?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 97 a year), other larceny (about 72 a year) and aggravated assault (about 54 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 25% above 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. Goleta's figures add up its 23 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Goleta has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 2.6% 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: 33,686. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Goleta, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/goleta
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Isla Vista2 mi28
- Eastern Goleta Valley4 mi22
- Mission Canyon8 mi24
- Santa Barbara9 mi129
- Montecito12 mi36
- Santa Ynez18 mi34
- Carpinteria20 mi50
- Oak View32 mi63