What is the crime rate in Santa Maria, CA?

In 2025, the Santa Maria Police Department reported 699 violent crimes and 2,026 property crimes to the FBI.

That is 626 violent and 1,813 property crimes per 100,000 of the 111,741 residents it serves.

Across California the rates were 435 and 1,822.

Nationally they were 330 and 1,552.

Figures last updated on November 12, 2026.

Violent per 100,000: 626
Property per 100,000: 1,813
Violent crimes: 699
Property crimes: 2,026

Crime reported by the Santa Maria Police Department, 2023 to 2025

Offenses known to law enforcement, reported to the FBI; rates per 100,000 residents of the area the department serves
Year	Violent crimes	Violent per 100,000	Property crimes	Property per 100,000	Residents served
2023	684	620	2,638	2,391	110,317
2024	732	665	2,158	1,961	110,056
2025	699	626	2,026	1,813	111,741

Violent crimes reported went from 684 in 2023 to 699 in 2025.

Property crimes reported went from 2,638 in 2023 to 2,026 in 2025.

In a small town a handful of incidents moves these numbers a long way, so one year’s change says little on its own.

Santa Maria against California and the nation

Crimes per 100,000 residents, 2025
	Violent crime	Property crime
Santa Maria	626	1,813
Santa Barbara County	419	1,255
California	435	1,822
United States	330	1,552

These are rates per resident; they are not adjusted for visitors, commuters or the size of the area, which raise or lower a town’s figures without changing anybody’s risk.

Crime reported in places near Santa Maria, 2025

Each place’s own police department; rates per 100,000 residents served
Place	Distance	Violent per 100,000	Property per 100,000
Santa Maria	—	626	1,813
Guadalupe	7.7 mi	147	620
Arroyo Grande	15 mi	126	571
Grover Beach	16 mi	216	664
Pismo Beach	20 mi	314	1,770
Buellton	26 mi	200	782
San Luis Obispo	26 mi	347	2,054
Solvang	29 mi	134	822

Neighboring departments count the same offenses the same way, but their areas, populations and visitors differ, so a difference between two towns is a starting point for a question, not an answer.

How to read these numbers

These are offenses known to the police and reported to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program: crimes nobody reported, or that a department did not record, are not in them.

Violent crime is murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault; property crime is burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson.

A department reports the crimes in the area it polices, which can differ from the town’s boundaries, and the FBI estimates the population it serves.

The FBI asks that these figures not be used to rank places or to judge how safe a neighborhood is: crime depends on many local factors, and the counts describe a whole town, not any street or home.

A year is shown only when the department reported all twelve months.

FBI: Uniform Crime Reporting statistics and their proper use

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