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Safety in San Diego Country Estates · Not graded

The police behind San Diego Country Estates’s crime figures

Within a 25-mile drive lie 8 towns that have a grade. San Diego Country Estates has no police department of its own: it’s an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) in San Diego County. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office reports to the FBI for the parts of the county without police of their own, so there are no figures for San Diego Country Estates alone, and no Safety Grade. For a graded neighbor, the nearest is Poway (B+), 14 miles away.

Violent crimes
830
reported by the county police, 2025
whole area it covers
Property crimes
1,535
reported by the county police, 2025
whole area it covers
Nearest graded town
14 mi
Poway (B+)
What stands out · In brief

What stands out about safety in San Diego Country Estates

Policed by the county

San Diego Country Estates is a census-designated place, with no town government. Crimes there are reported to the FBI inside the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office’s totals for the county. County police ↓

Counts, not rates

The FBI doesn’t publish how many people the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office covers, so its totals can’t be turned into a per-resident rate or a grade for San Diego Country Estates. County police ↓

The nearest graded towns

The closest California towns with their own police figures are Poway (B+, 14 mi), Santee (B, 16 mi), El Cajon (C−, 18 mi). Nearby towns can differ a lot from San Diego Country Estates. Nearest ↓

Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.

Who reports for San Diego Country Estates

What the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office reports

San Diego County Sheriff’s Office

Reports to the FBI for the parts of San Diego County without police of their own, which include San Diego Country Estates.

Property crimes

Violent crimes

2025 offenses reported by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office

Larceny / theft783
Burglary282
Vehicle theft470
Aggravated assault684
Robbery98
Rape44
Homicide4
Arson18

Counts, not rates: the FBI doesn’t publish how many people each agency covers. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, Tables 10–11.

Crimes reported to the FBI for the whole area the department covers, by year.

Nearest with figures

The nearest California towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
PowayB+14 mi1.35.9
SanteeB16 mi2.46.7
El CajonC−18 mi4.514.1
EscondidoC19 mi3.814.9
La MesaC21 mi4.014.6
San DiegoC−23 mi4.016.7

Straight-line distance from the center of San Diego Country Estates. Nearby towns can differ a lot from San Diego Country Estates.

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

On the roads

Four people died in crashes on San Diego Country Estates’s roads in 2019–2023

San Diego Country Estates had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died.

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 San Diego Country Estates’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so San Diego Country Estates’s own rate (7.8) is context, not a ranking.

4
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
7.8
per 100,000 a year · California towns of 5,000–25,000: 5.6

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.

Next door

San Diego Country Estates and its neighbors

Ramona: not gradedRamonaSan Diego Country Estates
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
Ramona———

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Ramona is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

How to read these numbers

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.
  • A county agency covers a wide area. Its totals mix many communities, so they say little about any one of them.
  • 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 San Diego Country Estates

Is San Diego Country Estates, CA safe?

There is no Safety Grade for San Diego Country Estates. The nearest California towns with a grade are Poway (B+, 14 mi), Santee (B, 16 mi), El Cajon (C−, 18 mi).

Who polices San Diego Country Estates?

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office. San Diego Country Estates is an unincorporated community, and the department reports to the FBI for the parts of San Diego County without police of their own.

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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 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.