Townsite is a neighborhood of 10,800 residents in Oceanside, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Townsite in Oceanside safe?
Townsite has more crime than most of the country: an overall CrimeGrade™ of C, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 84% of Americans live. Violent crime grades C and property crime C+. Oceanside as a whole grades B+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Townsite run from B to D+, so check the map below.
C
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 460 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
16% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Townsite as a whole, and 84% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Townsite scores 460.
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 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 in Townsite
Robberies and aggravated assaults both run high. In Townsite, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 3.0 robberies and 9.6 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 and 2.6 nationally.
How Townsite compares within Oceanside
Areas graded C are home to 95% of residents in Townsite; 3% live in areas graded A or B and 2% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Townsite run from B to D+; every part of Townsite has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
95%
A or B 3%C 95%D or F 2%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Townsite has less crime than 0 of the 11 neighborhoods in Oceanside. It covers much of the Townsite and South Oceanside areas.
Is crime going up in Oceanside?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Oceanside as a whole is up 12% and property crime is down 22%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 4.1 to 4.5 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 21 to 17 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
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
Violent, Oceanside
Violent, US
Property, Oceanside
Property, US
2016
-7%
+4%
+17%
+15%
2017
-3%
+4%
+9%
+12%
2018
-6%
+0%
+2%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+2%
+4%
-14%
-8%
2021
+17%
+6%
-6%
-10%
2022
+20%
+5%
-5%
-6%
2023
+8%
+2%
-16%
-7%
2024
+12%
-4%
-22%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Townsite
CrimeGrade™ estimates Townsite has about 95 reported 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.
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.
Assault is the most common crime in Townsite, about 31% of everything reported, and it also accounts for the largest share of what crime costs here.
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 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. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 34% of them, against 31% 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)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (46%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (33%)
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 Townsite compares with nearby neighborhoods
Townsite has the most crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Two things set Townsite apart: it has 3.9 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally, and 37.1 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places like that tend to report more assault and robbery, and they run high here.
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.3.9 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 97% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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
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.B- (54 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 67% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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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
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 Townsite
Crime costs Townsite about $2,585 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, about double 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 $39 million a year, or $3,613 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 Townsite 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. 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.
Schools in Townsite, Oceanside, CA average a SchoolGrade of D: 26% of students test proficient, against 30% projected for schools like them. Overall, they don't meet expectations. See schools in Townsite on SchoolGrade
