Crime in Rancho Santa Fe, California
Major crime in Rancho Santa Fe is 61% below the U.S. rate per resident: 69% lower for persons crimes and 59% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 22.6% 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 2.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Rancho Santa Fe 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 Rancho Santa Fe
Rancho Santa Fe is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 29; the middle half of residents live where it is between 19 and 29.
- 0–5079.9%
- 50–10020.1%
- 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 Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 22.6% 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 Santa Fe against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
1,273 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Rancho Santa Fe; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Rancho Santa Fe 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, Solana Beach (4 mi), is 1.6 times Rancho Santa Fe's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Rancho Santa Fe
What are the most common crimes in Rancho Santa Fe?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are burglary (about 9 a year), other larceny (about 3 a year) and aggravated assault (about 2 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 2.0 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. Rancho Santa Fe's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Rancho Santa Fe'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: 2,791. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Rancho Santa Fe, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/rancho-santa-fe
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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