Riviera, Santa Barbara, CA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Riviera is a neighborhood of 13,800 residents in Santa Barbara, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Riviera?
Property crime in Riviera sits near the national middle: an A-, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 50% of Americans live. Theft makes up 59% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A, and vehicle theft grades A. Santa Barbara as a whole grades B+ for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 821 of 1,000About as much property crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
50% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Riviera as a whole, and 50% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Riviera scores 821.
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 Riviera, Santa Barbara, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Riviera in Santa Barbara, 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 Riviera
Car thefts happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Santa Barbara as a whole, 75% of reported car thefts happen on streets and sidewalks, against 27% nationally.
How Riviera compares within Santa Barbara
Low property crime is the norm across Riviera: 87% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Property crime grades across Riviera run from A to C-.
87%13%
A or B 87%C 13%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Riviera has less property crime than 6 of the 8 neighborhoods in Santa Barbara. It covers much of the Riviera and Lower East areas.
Is property crime going up in Santa Barbara?
Reported property crime in Santa Barbara as a whole has fallen 24% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 23 to 18 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
Santa BarbaraUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Santa Barbara. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Santa Barbara
Property, US
2016
+43%
+15%
2017
+17%
+12%
2018
+10%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+6%
-8%
2021
-10%
-10%
2022
-11%
-6%
2023
-22%
-7%
2024
-24%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Riviera
CrimeGrade™ estimates Riviera has about 16 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 33% less than the US as a whole and 25% less than Santa Barbara as a whole.
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 Riviera, about 59% of the total, followed by vandalism and vehicle theft.
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 Santa Barbara
The Santa Barbara Police Department polices Riviera; these figures cover Santa Barbara as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Santa Barbara as a whole, 44% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (44%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (75%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (46%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (27%)
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 Riviera and nearby neighborhoods
Riviera has less property crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Las Positas has less.
Night lighting, transit and walkability in Riviera
Riviera looks like a typical neighborhood on the traits that tend to go with property crime.
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.55% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 99% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Riviera: D (14 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 95% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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. 78% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (21 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 70% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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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.20% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 80% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 Riviera
Property crime costs Riviera about $1.5 million a year, or $108 per resident and about $282 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 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.
