Property crime: Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office
Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office reported 936 property crimes in 2025, or 689.7 per 100,000 of the 135,709 people it serves. The California rate was 1,822.3. As a county agency it usually serves only the areas without their own city police, so its population and rate are not comparable with a city's. The agency's rate was up 3.7% from 2024.
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Reported property crimes per 100,000 people. Gaps mark years without a full year of data.
Year by year
| Year | Property crimes | Per 100,000 | Burglary | Larceny-theft | Motor vehicle theft | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 936 | 689.7 | 233 | 663 | 26 | 12.6% |
| 2024 | 950 | 665.2 | 212 | 697 | 32 | 11.1% |
| 2023 | 1,049 | 760.9 | 202 | 812 | 29 | 8.6% |
| 2022 | 1,421 | 1,025.0 | 283 | 1,086 | 32 | 8.4% |
| 2021 | Not a full year of data reported | |||||
| 2020 | 1,631 | 1,177.9 | 277 | 1,279 | 60 | 8.8% |
| 2019 | 1,265 | 907.4 | 305 | 938 | 14 | 9.0% |
| 2018 | 1,211 | 864.2 | 336 | 848 | 24 | 13.0% |
| 2017 | 1,505 | 1,057.4 | 421 | 1,054 | 24 | 11.5% |
| 2016 | 1,646 | 1,181.7 | 476 | 1,146 | 17 | 10.9% |
| 2015 | 1,688 | 1,197.6 | 511 | 1,152 | 13 | 15.0% |
A year is shown only when the agency reported all 12 months and the months look complete: we leave out years with several empty months, most offenses in one month or one half of the year, or a total far below the usual level for that agency. Agency type: County. County: Santa Barbara. FBI agency identifier (ORI): CA0420000.
Sources
- FBI Crime Data Explorer, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, summarized reported offenses and clearances (monthly), retrieved through the CDE data service
- FBI, Uniform Crime Reporting Program: offense definitions and data participation
- FBI, National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) transition
Data refreshed by the FBI on 15 October 2026. Checked 29 October 2026. Figures are offenses reported to police and submitted to the FBI, not estimates of all crime.