CrimeMetric

Crime in Solana Beach, California

Major crime in Solana Beach is 39% below the U.S. rate per resident: 69% lower for persons crimes and 33% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.6% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
61
39% below the U.S. rate
50% below the California rate
down 6.6% in a year
Persons crimes
31
69% below the U.S. rate
77% below the California rate
down 3.8% in a year
Property crimes
67
33% below the U.S. rate
43% below the California rate
down 6.8% in a year
Social disorder
33
67% below the U.S. rate
67% below the California rate
down 3.7% in a year

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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Crime by type

Burglary stands out most, at 43% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Solana Beach for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Solana Beach

The middle half of Solana Beach residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 29 and 86; the typical (median) resident's is 51. The citywide figure (61) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Solana Beach, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5046.3%
  • 50–10041.5%
  • 100–20012.2%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest on weekend daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm59
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am60
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm70
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am57
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 6.6% in a year; across California it fell 7.4%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-6.6%CA -7.4%-19.8%CA -14.1%
Persons crimes-3.8%CA -3.5%-10.0%CA -6.1%
Property crimes-6.8%CA -8.4%-20.8%CA -16.1%
Social disorder-3.7%CA -4.9%-10.9%CA -9.4%

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.

Similar-size places

Solana Beach against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,273 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Solana Beach; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Waianae, HI12,882103
Kelso, WA12,90095
Red Bank, NJ12,89376
Solana Beach, CA12,88761

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Solana Beach 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, Del Mar (2 mi), is 11% above Solana Beach's rate.

Carlsbad9 mi68
Del Mar2 mi67
Vista14 mi67
Solana Beach61
Encinitas4 mi60
San Marcos11 mi47
Poway13 mi37

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Solana Beach

What are the most common crimes in Solana Beach?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 31 a year), other larceny (about 31 a year) and burglary (about 30 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 43% above 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. Solana Beach's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Solana Beach 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: 12,887. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Solana Beach, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/solana-beach

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100