Crime in Scotts Valley, California
Major crime in Scotts Valley is about the U.S. rate per resident: 31% lower for persons crimes and 12% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.2% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 2.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Scotts Valley 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 Scotts Valley
The middle half of Scotts Valley residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 59 and 140; the typical (median) resident's is 103.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10034.2%
- 100–20065.8%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.2% 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.
Scotts Valley against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
632 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Scotts Valley; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Scotts Valley 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, Ben Lomond (4 mi), is 59% below Scotts Valley's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Scotts Valley
What are the most common crimes in Scotts Valley?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 85 a year), other larceny (about 49 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 17 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.6 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. Scotts Valley's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Scotts Valley'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: 10,394. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Scotts Valley, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/scotts-valley
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Ben Lomond4 mi43
- Santa Cruz5 mi172
- Live Oak6 mi108
- Soquel6 mi64
- Twin Lakes6 mi78
- Capitola6 mi150
- Pleasure Point7 mi75
- Boulder Creek8 mi61