Crime in Saratoga, California
Major crime in Saratoga is 69% below the U.S. rate per resident: 79% lower for persons crimes and 66% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.6% 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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Every crime type in Saratoga is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Saratoga 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 Saratoga
The middle half of Saratoga residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 18 and 40; the typical (median) resident's is 22. The citywide figure (32) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5084.3%
- 50–10015.7%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.6% 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.
Saratoga against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
904 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Saratoga; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Saratoga 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, Cupertino (4 mi), is 2.2 times Saratoga's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Saratoga
What are the most common crimes in Saratoga?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are burglary (about 41 a year), other larceny (about 40 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 31 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 21% 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. Saratoga's figures add up its 24 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Saratoga 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: 31,388. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Saratoga, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/saratoga
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Cupertino4 mi68
- Campbell4 mi156
- Los Gatos4 mi71
- Cambrian Park5 mi117
- Burbank6 mi194
- Santa Clara7 mi165
- Sunnyvale7 mi102
- Los Altos8 mi50