Crime in Seaside, California
Major crime in Seaside is about the U.S. rate per resident: 1.7 times for persons crimes and 15% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.0% 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.
Check an address in Seaside
Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 2.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Seaside 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 Seaside
The middle half of Seaside residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 36 and 72; the typical (median) resident's is 49. The citywide figure (101) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5058.1%
- 50–10026.2%
- 100–20010.4%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+5.3%
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 6.0% 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.
Seaside against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
306 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Seaside; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Seaside has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Monterey (3 mi), is 11% below Seaside's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Seaside
What are the most common crimes in Seaside?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 167 a year), aggravated assault (about 138 a year) and other larceny (about 98 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.1 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. Seaside's figures add up its 19 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Seaside has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 22.2% 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: 30,634. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Seaside, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/seaside
Use these numbers in your product
Any U.S. address by API or MCP, free for 10,000 lookups a month.
Get a free API keyNearest cities we publish
Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Monterey3 mi90
- Marina5 mi88
- Pacific Grove5 mi49
- Del Monte Forest6 mi55
- Carmel-by-the-Sea7 mi106
- Castroville11 mi53
- Salinas12 mi120
- Carmel Valley Village13 mi43