Photo: Niceley · CC BY-SA 4.0Westlake Village sees more property crime per resident than 73% of U.S. towns
Both towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. Annual rates stand at 1.7 violent crimes and 18.2 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 4.9 and 21.4 in the rest of California. Still, the overall Safety Grade is C+ (#155 of 416 graded towns in California), which means more crime per resident than 65% of U.S. towns, judged on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. The graded rate fell 20% from 2023 to 2025.
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 Westlake Village
2 of the 2 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 2 California towns on Westlake Village’s borders, 2 have a Safety Grade: Thousand Oaks (B), Agoura Hills (B). Neighbors ↓
Among California towns, closer to the middle
California’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Westlake Village’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 63% of the 416 California towns we grade, against 35% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Westlake Village has 12,358 jobs based in town for 7,505 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Westlake Village’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; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (1.7) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Westlake Village property | Rest of California property | Westlake Village violent | Rest of California violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 18.8 | 24.8 | 1.3 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 19.3 | 25.0 | 2.4 | 5.4 |
| 2024 | 19.2 | 20.8 | 1.5 | 4.9 |
| 2025 | 16.0 | 18.5 | 1.3 | 4.3 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of California.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Westlake Village | Rest of California | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.3 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.4 | 5.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.5 | 4.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.3 | 4.3 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Westlake Village’s police reported 39 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.7 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 Westlake Village 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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
130 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.
10 violent and 120 property, as reported to the FBI by Westlake Village’s police.
Four people died in crashes on Westlake Village’s roads in 2019–2023
Westlake Village had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died; 2 were pedestrians.
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 Westlake Village’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Westlake Village’s own rate (10.3) 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.
Westlake Village and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westlake Village | C+ | 1.7 | 18.2 |
| Thousand Oaks | B | 1.1 | 10.4 |
| Agoura Hills | B | 1.5 | 10.3 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
California towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westlake Village | C+ | 1.7 | 18.2 |
| Fairfax | B | 1.2 | 8.5 |
| Ojai | B | 1.7 | 7.6 |
| Escalon | C+ | 3.5 | 11.0 |
| Sebastopol | C | 3.9 | 14.6 |
| Huron | C− | 7.6 | 4.6 |
The five graded California towns closest to Westlake Village’s population (7,505), 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 Westlake Village. 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 Westlake Village’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (7,495 in 2025); our figure for Westlake Village is 7,505 (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 Westlake Village
Is Westlake Village, CA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Westlake Village reports more crime per resident than 65% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #155 of 416 in California. Its police reported 1.7 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 Westlake Village?
1.7 violent and 18.2 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 Westlake Village safer than Thousand Oaks?
Thousand Oaks reports less crime per resident than Westlake Village: Thousand Oaks grades B for safety and Westlake Village C+. Thousand Oaks’s police reported 1.1 violent and 10.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Westlake Village?
Westlake Village’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Westlake Village”. 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.