Crime in Rancho San Diego, California
Major crime in Rancho San Diego is 71% below the U.S. rate per resident: 57% lower for persons crimes and 74% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 1.5% 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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Every crime type in Rancho San Diego is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Rancho San Diego 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 Rancho San Diego
The middle half of Rancho San Diego residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 13 and 23; the typical (median) resident's is 21. The citywide figure (29) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5082.9%
- 50–10011.6%
- 100–2005.5%
- 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 Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 1.5% 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.
Rancho San Diego against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,977 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Rancho San Diego; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Rancho San Diego has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Casa de Oro-Mount Helix (3 mi), is 41% above Rancho San Diego's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Rancho San Diego
What are the most common crimes in Rancho San Diego?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 24 a year), burglary (about 18 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 16 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 37% 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. Rancho San Diego's figures add up its 12 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Rancho San Diego's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 31.1% 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: 21,959. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Rancho San Diego, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/rancho-san-diego
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Casa de Oro-Mount Helix3 mi41
- El Cajon3 mi120
- Spring Valley4 mi32
- Jamul4 mi47
- Bostonia4 mi55
- Winter Gardens5 mi41
- La Presa5 mi40
- La Mesa6 mi122