Photo: Clotee Allochuku · CC BY 2.0Rolling Hills Estates records more property crime per head than seven in ten U.S. towns
3 of the 5 towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. Rolling Hills Estates’s Safety Grade, C+ (#130 of 416 graded towns in California), rests on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025: more crime per resident than 60% of U.S. towns. Even so, the local count comes to 1.5 violent crimes and 16.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 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 Rolling Hills Estates
3 of the 5 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 5 California towns on Rolling Hills Estates’ borders, 5 have a Safety Grade: Rolling Hills (A), Palos Verdes Estates (B+), Rancho Palos Verdes (B+), Lomita (C−), Torrance (C−). Neighbors ↓
Among California towns, closer to the middle
California’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Rolling Hills Estates’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 69% of the 416 California towns we grade, against 40% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Rolling Hills Estates’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Rolling Hills Estates’ grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (16.6) 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Rolling Hills Estates | Rest of California | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.1 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.4 | 5.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.0 | 4.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.1 | 4.3 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Rolling Hills Estates’ police reported 36 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the rest of California and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Rolling Hills Estates 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 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Rolling Hills Estates property | Rest of California property | Rolling Hills Estates violent | Rest of California violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 16.8 | 24.8 | 1.1 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 17.3 | 25.0 | 1.4 | 5.4 |
| 2024 | 15.5 | 20.8 | 1.0 | 4.9 |
| 2025 | 17.0 | 18.5 | 2.1 | 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.
152 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.
17 violent and 135 property, as reported to the FBI by Rolling Hills Estates’ police.
No one died in a crash on Rolling Hills Estates’s roads in 2019–2023
That is about what is typical for California towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (5.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Rolling Hills Estates’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Rolling Hills Estates’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
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.
Rolling Hills Estates and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rolling Hills Estates | C+ | 1.5 | 16.6 |
| Rancho Palos Verdes | B+ | 1.1 | 8.4 |
| Torrance | C− | 2.9 | 26.7 |
| Lomita | C− | 4.0 | 17.6 |
| Rolling Hills | A | 0.8 | 2.0 |
| Palos Verdes Estates | B+ | 0.2 | 9.6 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
California towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rolling Hills Estates | C+ | 1.5 | 16.6 |
| Winters | A− | 0.7 | 4.7 |
| Hughson | A− | 1.0 | 4.6 |
| Fowler | C | 5.0 | 11.5 |
| Woodlake | C− | 6.1 | 11.7 |
| Pismo Beach | C− | 4.9 | 22.2 |
The five graded California towns closest to Rolling Hills Estates’ population (7,948), 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 Rolling Hills Estates. 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 Rolling Hills Estates’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (7,942 in 2025); our figure for Rolling Hills Estates is 7,948 (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 Rolling Hills Estates
Is Rolling Hills Estates, CA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Rolling Hills Estates reports more crime per resident than 60% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #130 of 416 in California. Its police reported 1.5 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 Rolling Hills Estates?
1.5 violent and 16.6 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.
Is Rolling Hills Estates safer than Rancho Palos Verdes?
Rancho Palos Verdes reports less crime per resident than Rolling Hills Estates: Rancho Palos Verdes grades B+ for safety and Rolling Hills Estates C+. Rancho Palos Verdes’s police reported 1.1 violent and 8.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Rolling Hills Estates?
Rolling Hills Estates’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Rolling Hills Estates”. 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.