Crime in Santa Paula, California
Major crime in Santa Paula is 44% below the U.S. rate per resident: 21% higher for persons crimes and 58% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 10.8% 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 2.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Santa Paula 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 Santa Paula
The middle half of Santa Paula residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 27 and 73; the typical (median) resident's is 53.
- 0–5049.1%
- 50–10045.1%
- 100–2004.6%
- 200–4001.2%
- 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 fell 10.8% 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.
Santa Paula against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
652 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Santa Paula; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Santa Paula 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, Camarillo (9 mi), is 27% above Santa Paula's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Santa Paula
What are the most common crimes in Santa Paula?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 94 a year), other larceny (about 62 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 43 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.3 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. Santa Paula's figures add up its 18 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Santa Paula has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 26.2% 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: 30,576. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Santa Paula, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/santa-paula
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Camarillo9 mi72
- El Rio9 mi68
- Fillmore10 mi48
- San Buenaventura (Ventura)10 mi110
- Ojai12 mi47
- Moorpark12 mi48
- Oxnard13 mi99
- Mira Monte13 mi44