Oceanside is a city of 187,800 in San Diego County, about 35 miles north of downtown San Diego · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Oceanside?
Oceanside earns a B+ for property crime, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 67% of Americans live. Theft makes up 48% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B+, and vehicle theft grades A-.
B+
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 695 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
33% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Oceanside as a whole, and 67% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Oceanside scores 695.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Oceanside, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Oceanside, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about property crime in Oceanside
One part of Oceanside stands out for vehicle theft. Car thefts in Townsite & South Oceanside, in southwest Oceanside, run at about double the rate in the rest of the city.
Where property crime is lowest and highest in Oceanside
Most of Oceanside grades well for property crime: 82% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 4% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Oceanside run from A to D.
82%14%
A or B 82%C 14%D or F 4%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
1Camp Pendleton South, northwestThefts run at a small fraction of the rate in the rest of Oceanside.A898
2Guajome & Morro Hills, northeastBurglaries run about 30% lower here than in the rest of Oceanside.B+752
3Fire Mountain, southClose to the rest of Oceanside on most crimes.B+720
4Ivey Ranch-Rancho del Oro, centralCar thefts run about 40% lower here than in the rest of Oceanside.B+707
6Lake & Tri-City, southeastClose to the rest of Oceanside on most crimes.B+697
7Peacock, eastClose to the rest of Oceanside on most crimes.B685
8East Side Capistrano, westBurglaries run about 40% higher here than in the rest of Oceanside.B631
9Townsite & South Oceanside, southwestBurglaries run about 80% higher here than in the rest of Oceanside.C+476
Neighborhood areas of Oceanside, ranked by property crime CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer). Each one combines several of the smaller areas on the map.
Is property crime going up in Oceanside?
Reported property crime in Oceanside has fallen 22% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 21 to 17 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
OceansideUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Oceanside. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Oceanside
Property, US
2016
+17%
+15%
2017
+9%
+12%
2018
+2%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-14%
-8%
2021
-6%
-10%
2022
-5%
-6%
2023
-16%
-7%
2024
-22%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Oceanside
CrimeGrade™ estimates Oceanside has about 22 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 8% less than the US as a whole and 21% less than California.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in Oceanside, about 48% of the total, followed by vandalism and burglary.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when property crime happens in Oceanside
Oceanside has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Oceanside, 42% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often in parking lots and garages: 31% of them, against 23% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (42%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (31%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (34%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (25%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Property crime in Oceanside and nearby cities
Oceanside has the most property crime of its 10 nearest cities.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Oceanside. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with cities of similar size and density, Oceanside has more property crime than 70% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Oceanside apart: it has 14 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby, and 25 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft, and it runs high here.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Oceanside: C- (30 of 100).14 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 89% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.25 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 78% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft. 84% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (17 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 53% of US city residents
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.39% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 75% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.1.2 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 71% of US city residents
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.4.3% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 70% of US city residents
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What property crime costs Oceanside
Property crime costs Oceanside about $30 million a year, or $158 per resident and about $449 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How the cost breaks down
Pain and suffering add little to the cost of property crime, so this is close to its full cost.
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Burglary
$4.7 million
$25
Theft
$10 million
$53
Vehicle theft
$5.7 million
$30
Arson
$590,000
$3
Vandalism
$8.7 million
$46
Total
$30 million
$158
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
