Crime in Templeton, California
Major crime in Templeton is 35% below the U.S. rate per resident: 1.6 times for persons crimes and 55% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 2.2% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 2.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Templeton 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 Templeton
The middle half of Templeton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 41 and 60; the typical (median) resident's is 48. The citywide figure (65) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5056.6%
- 50–10035.0%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4008.3%
- 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 2.2% 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.
Templeton against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,045 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Templeton; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Templeton has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) (5 mi), is 12% above Templeton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Templeton
What are the most common crimes in Templeton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 35 a year), other larceny (about 23 a year) and burglary (about 10 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.8 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. Templeton's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Templeton has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 43.4% 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: 8,601. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Templeton, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/templeton
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)5 mi73
- Atascadero6 mi55
- Cayucos13 mi101
- Morro Bay14 mi66
- Los Osos18 mi50
- San Luis Obispo20 mi133
- Cambria21 mi75
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