Santa Anita is a neighborhood of 16,200 residents in Santa Ana, about 2 miles west of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Santa Anita in Santa Ana safe?
Crime in Santa Anita is moderate, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of B-. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 76% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Santa Anita. Violent crime grades B and property crime B-. Santa Ana as a whole grades B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Santa Anita run from B+ to C, so check the map below.
B-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 614 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
24% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Santa Anita as a whole, and 76% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Santa Anita scores 614.
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 crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime 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 Santa Anita, Santa Ana, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Santa Anita in Santa Ana, 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 in Santa Anita
Burglaries happen at stores and businesses far more often than nationally. In Santa Ana as a whole, 61% of reported burglaries happen at stores and businesses, against 28% nationally.
How Santa Anita compares within Santa Ana
Low crime is the norm across Santa Anita: 80% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across Santa Anita run from B+ to C; every part of Santa Anita has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
80%20%
A or B 80%C 20%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Santa Anita has less crime than 20 of the 32 neighborhoods in Santa Ana. It covers much of the Riverview West, Townsend-Raitt, and Santa Anita areas and the Artesia Pilar area.
Is crime going up in Santa Ana?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Santa Ana as a whole is up 10% and property crime is down 19%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 4.4 to 4.8 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 21 to 17 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 13% and property crime fell 17%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
Santa AnaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Santa Ana. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Santa Ana
Violent, US
Property, Santa Ana
Property, US
2016
+10%
+4%
+2%
+15%
2017
+12%
+4%
+2%
+12%
2018
+8%
+0%
-7%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+5%
+4%
+8%
-8%
2021
+20%
+6%
+11%
-10%
2022
+7%
+5%
-1%
-6%
2023
+26%
+2%
-2%
-7%
2024
+10%
-4%
-19%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Santa Anita
CrimeGrade™ estimates Santa Anita has about 26 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 30% less than the US as a whole and 22% less than Santa Ana as a whole.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft is the most common crime in Santa Anita, about 33% of everything reported, but assault costs more, because each one does more harm.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. 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 crime happens in Santa Ana
The Santa Ana Police Department polices Santa Anita; these figures cover Santa Ana as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 55% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (61%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (49%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (55%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Parking lots and garages (25%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (40%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Streets and sidewalks (36%)
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.
How Santa Anita compares with nearby neighborhoods
Santa Anita has less crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Two things set Santa Anita apart: it has 2.2% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 15 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less burglary, vandalism and arson, yet burglary and vandalism run higher here than that would suggest.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.2.2% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 93% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.15 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 80% 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 and assault. 54% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C (33 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 52% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.3% where people liveUS: 21%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 crime costs Santa Anita
Crime costs Santa Anita about $1,482 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 23% more than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $20 million a year, or $1,233 per resident.
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Santa Anita means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Santa Anita is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower 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.
Schools in Santa Anita, Santa Ana, CA average a SchoolGrade of C+: 36% of students test proficient, against 24% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Santa Anita on SchoolGrade
