Crime in Santa Ynez, California
Major crime in Santa Ynez is 66% below the U.S. rate per resident: 53% lower for persons crimes and 70% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 15.9% 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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Every crime type in Santa Ynez is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Santa Ynez 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 Santa Ynez
Santa Ynez is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 45; the middle half of residents live where it is between 13 and 45.
- 0–5076.7%
- 50–10023.3%
- 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 fell 15.9% 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.
Santa Ynez against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,786 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Santa Ynez; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Santa Ynez has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Goleta (18 mi), is 1.6 times Santa Ynez's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Santa Ynez
What are the most common crimes in Santa Ynez?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 10 a year), aggravated assault (about 6 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 4 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: about 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 Ynez's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Santa Ynez 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: 5,035. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Santa Ynez, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/santa-ynez
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Goleta18 mi54
- Isla Vista19 mi28
- Eastern Goleta Valley21 mi22
- Mission Hills21 mi17
- Lompoc21 mi86
- Vandenberg Village22 mi16
- Mission Canyon24 mi24
- Santa Barbara25 mi129