Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Houstontech assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domainPer resident, El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) records more violent crime than 79% of U.S. towns
The grade is C, built on crimes El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)’s police reported from 2023 to 2025: #224 of 416 graded towns in California. Per resident, the graded rate barely moved from 2023 to 2025. Annual rates stand at 3.7 violent crimes and 16.5 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 4.9 and 21.4 in the rest of California.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of CA” is every other California city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)
Among California towns, closer to the middle
California’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 46% of the 416 California towns we grade, against 26% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its property rate (16.5) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Crime in El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 4 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) | Rest of California | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.1 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 3.9 | 5.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.6 | 4.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)’s police reported 347 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the rest of California and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) property | Rest of California property | El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) violent | Rest of California violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 16.4 | 24.8 | 3.1 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 15.6 | 25.0 | 3.9 | 5.4 |
| 2024 | 18.6 | 20.8 | 3.6 | 4.9 |
| 2025 | 15.4 | 18.5 | 3.5 | 4.3 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of California.
597 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
110 violent and 487 property, as reported to the FBI by El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)’s police.
16 people died in crashes on El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)’s roads in 2019–2023
El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) had 16 fatal crashes in five years, in which 16 people died; 4 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist.
That is 10.2 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for California towns of 25,000–100,000 people (5.6, 231 towns).
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) | C | 3.7 | 16.5 |
| Templeton | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Templeton is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
California towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) | C | 3.7 | 16.5 |
| Santa Paula | C+ | 3.5 | 7.9 |
| Seaside | C | 4.9 | 7.8 |
| Banning | C | 4.2 | 11.3 |
| Bell | C− | 5.8 | 12.5 |
| San Pablo | D | 5.1 | 25.1 |
The five graded California towns closest to El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)’s population (31,626), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles). A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (31,588 in 2025); our figure for El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) is 31,626 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)
Is El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles), CA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) reports more crime per resident than 74% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #224 of 416 in California. Its police reported 3.7 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the rest of California and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)?
3.7 violent and 16.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of California reports 4.9 and 21.4; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) in 2025?
El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)?
El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Paso Robles”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.