Crime in Oak View, California
Major crime in Oak View is 37% below the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 46% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 3.5% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 4.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Oak View 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 Oak View
Oak View is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 59; the middle half of residents live where it is between 57 and 73.
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Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 3.5% 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.
Oak View against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
783 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Oak View; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Oak View has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Mira Monte (2 mi), is 30% below Oak View's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Oak View
What are the most common crimes in Oak View?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 16 a year), aggravated assault (about 13 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 4.3 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. Oak View's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Oak View 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: 4,468. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Oak View, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/oak-view
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Mira Monte2 mi44
- Ojai5 mi47
- San Buenaventura (Ventura)10 mi110
- Carpinteria12 mi50
- Santa Paula14 mi57
- El Rio14 mi68
- Oxnard16 mi99
- Channel Islands Beach17 mi89