Crime reported by the Rancho Santa Margarita Police Department
The Rancho Santa Margarita Police Department reported 38 violent offenses to the FBI in 2024, over the 45,633 residents it serves — 83.3 per 100,000. This is that agency’s record, not a figure for Rancho Santa Margarita as a place.
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Identifiers
- ORI
- CA030480X
- County
- ORANGE
- Reporting
- NIBRS
The record
| Violent crime rate · 202438 offenses over the 45,633 residents this agency served in 2024. | 83.3offenses per 100,000 residents served |
|---|---|
| Property crime rate · 2024240 offenses over the 45,633 residents this agency served in 2024. | 525.9offenses per 100,000 residents served |
| Residents served · 2024The population this agency covers, not the population of a place. It changes every year, and each year’s rate divides by that year’s figure. | 45,633residents, as the FBI attributes them to this agency in 2024 |
Year by year · 2019–2024
Only years this agency reported. The last two columns are what separate a quiet year from a thin record: how many of the twelve months it submitted, and how the year compares with the most it has ever reported.
Violent crime
2 more columns on a wider screen
| Year | Offenses | Rate | Months | Share of its best year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 30 | 62.0 | 12 | 78.9% |
| 2020 | 19 | 39.7 | 12 | 50.0% |
| 2021 | 13 | 27.3 | 11 | 34.2% |
| 2022 | 18 | 38.4 | 12 | 47.4% |
| 2023 | 25 | 54.2 | 12 | 65.8% |
| 2024 | 38 | 83.3 | 12 | 100.0% |
Property crime
2 more columns on a wider screen
| Year | Offenses | Rate | Months | Share of its best year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 296 | 611.9 | 12 | 100.0% |
| 2020 | 282 | 588.8 | 12 | 95.3% |
| 2021 | 154 | 323.9 | 11 | 52.0% |
| 2022 | 224 | 477.7 | 12 | 75.7% |
| 2023 | 209 | 452.8 | 12 | 70.6% |
| 2024 | 240 | 525.9 | 12 | 81.1% |
On comparing this with another agency
The FBI cautions against ranking jurisdictions against one another, and the caution applies to two of these pages side by side as much as to a list. We publish the rate, the count, the population it divides by and how much of its own record each agency reported, together on the same row, and we say that a figure describes what was reported to police rather than what happened. Nothing here is ranked on a measure the FBI did not publish for it. Its wording is on the ranking page, quoted in full, and at https://ucr.fbi.gov/cautionagainstranking.pdf.
What this data cannot show
- An agency is not a place. This is what the Rancho Santa Margarita Police Department reported for the population it serves. A city with a transit or university force as well is not the sum of them, and a sheriff’s office covers the part of a county nobody else polices.
- Nothing here is added to a county, state or national total. Two agencies can serve overlapping populations, and summed across a state they reach 101% of its covered population at the median and 128% in Louisiana. The state figures on this site come from the FBI’s own state series, which is a different call.
- Each year’s rate divides by that year’s population, which the FBI publishes beside the counts. Every agency’s population changes annually, by up to 11.4%.
- A year the agency reported nothing is absent rather than shown as zero. The FBI returns 0 for a month nobody submitted and the same 0 for a month in which nothing happened, and nothing in the response separates them.
- Violent and property crime are the FBI’s own aggregations, never sums of component offenses computed here. Offenses are those reported to and recorded by this agency: not convictions, and not what was never reported to police.
- Agencies serving fewer than 25,000 people have no page, because a rate over a few thousand residents moves by a third on one incident.
Related
Sources
- FBI Crime Data Explorer — crime reported by each agency — Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved September 19, 2026
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