Townsite, Oceanside, CA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Townsite is a neighborhood of 10,800 residents in Oceanside, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Townsite?
Townsite grades C+ for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 80% of Americans live. Theft makes up 48% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades C, and vehicle theft grades B-. Oceanside as a whole grades B+ for property crime.
C+
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 470 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
20% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Townsite as a whole, and 80% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Townsite scores 470.
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 Townsite, Oceanside, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Townsite 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 Townsite
Burglary at about triple the US rate. Townsite has 7.1 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.4 nationally.
How Townsite compares within Oceanside
Areas graded C for property crime are home to 62% of residents in Townsite; 3% live in areas graded A or B and 35% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Townsite run from B+ to D.
62%35%
A or B 3%C 62%D or F 35%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Townsite has less property crime than 0 of the 11 neighborhoods in Oceanside. It covers much of the Townsite and South Oceanside areas.
Is property crime going up in Oceanside?
Reported property crime in Oceanside as a whole 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 departments that serve 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 Townsite
CrimeGrade™ estimates Townsite has about 62 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and about triple the rate for Oceanside 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 Townsite, 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
The Oceanside Police Department polices Townsite; these figures cover Oceanside as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Oceanside as a whole, 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 Townsite and nearby neighborhoods
Townsite has the most property crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Townsite. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Townsite is safer than 65% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Townsite apart: it has 37.1 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 13.4% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft and car theft, and they run high here.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.37.1 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 97% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.13.4% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 90% 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.B- (54 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 67% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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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.100% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 81% 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 Townsite
Property crime costs Townsite about $4.7 million a year, or $435 per resident and about $979 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. Townsite is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
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.
