CA
Santa Barbara City College
0.57 incidents / 1,000 students
Santa Barbara, CA · Clery Act 2024 · Public
Santa Barbara City College
Across 2022–2024, Santa Barbara City College reported 18 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count fell over that span (largest filed category: Burglary). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Ventura College.
- 0.57
- Incidents / 1k students
- #382
- Rank of 2,072
- #159
- CA rank
- 12,334
- Enrolled students
0.57 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Santa Barbara City College reports 0.57 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 65% below California State University-East Bay. Similar-enrollment scored peers: California State University-East Bay (2.60/1k); American University (2.19/1k); Nassau Community College (0.81/1k); University of Idaho (2.28/1k); Community College of Rhode Island (0.16/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Ventura College (0.25/1k); Merced College (0.32/1k); Los Angeles Trade Technical College (1.36/1k); Glendale Community College (0.91/1k); Moreno Valley College (0.17/1k); Santiago Canyon College (0.25/1k); Chabot College (1.09/1k); College of the Desert (0.31/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Burglary.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 0.57
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #382
- safer than ranked campuses its size
- 82%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 4
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 122889 · Santa Barbara City College 0.57/1k score rate · #382/2,072
RATE-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-MID · FIRE-NONE
- RATE-QUIET 0.57/1k
- RANK-UPPER #382/2,072
- ST-MID #159 in state
- BELOW-PEER Nassau Community College · 0.25 back
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-DOWN ↓ 20%
- CAT-LEAD Burglary
- ENR-MID 12,334
- FIRE-NONE No res filing
Nearest enrollment peer: Nassau Community College (+0.25/1k)
Santa Barbara City College sheet RATE-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-MID · FIRE-NONE · peer Nassau Community College. Codes from this campus OPE filing: score-category rate, national/state rank, named enrollment peer, zero posture, Criminal Offenses trend, lead category, enrollment band, fire filing. Not a moving recommendation.
Clery plate RATE-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-MID · FIRE-NONE. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Nassau Community College (+0.25/1k). National rank #382 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Santa Barbara City College reports 0.57 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 65% below California State University-East Bay. Similar-enrollment scored peers: California State University-East Bay (2.60/1k); American University (2.19/1k); Nassau Community College (0.81/1k); University of Idaho (2.28/1k); Community College of Rhode Island (0.16/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Ventura College (0.25/1k); Merced College (0.32/1k); Los Angeles Trade Technical College (1.36/1k); Glendale Community College (0.91/1k); Moreno Valley College (0.17/1k); Santiago Canyon College (0.25/1k); Chabot College (1.09/1k); College of the Desert (0.31/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Burglary.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Santa Barbara City
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Santa on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Community College of Rhode · lowest peer 0.16
Community College of Rhode Island — lowest peer
0.16 per 1,000 students
- Santa Barbara City College · this campus 0.57
Santa Barbara City College — this campus
0.57 per 1,000 students
- Nassau Community College · near 0.81
Nassau Community College — near
0.81 per 1,000 students
- American University · near
American University — near
2.19 per 1,000 students
- California State University-East Bay · highest peer
California State University-East Bay — highest peer
2.6 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Santa Barbara City College's 0.57/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Santa Barbara City College decreased from 9 to 4 reported on-campus incidents between the 2023 and 2024 reporting years in the U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey.
This is a change in reported incidents, not a measure of individual safety. Enrollment, reporting practice, and category coverage can affect the count.
See national reporting-year changesSignature insight · size does not equal danger
Campus size vs reported safety rate
Among 37 CA 2-year peers in this comparison, Santa Barbara City College is larger than 64% and safer-reporting than 36% - the larger, higher-reporting quadrant. Axes are within-sample percentiles so outliers share the same frame; a higher safety percentile means a lower Clery incidents-per-1,000 rate.
Read the chart as text
- Point 1: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 78
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 64
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 69
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 89
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 94
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 94
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 92
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 81
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 86
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 94
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 83
- Santa Barbara City College: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imperial Valley College | 8,873 | 0.11 | 0 | 83 |
| Cuyamaca College | 8,905 | 0.22 | 3 | 72 |
| Coastline Community College | 9,008 | 0.00 | 6 | 94 |
| Ohlone College | 9,061 | 0.77 | 8 | 17 |
| Laney College | 9,328 | 0.43 | 11 | 47 |
| Evergreen Valley College | 9,336 | 0.54 | 14 | 39 |
| Cabrillo College | 9,457 | 0.53 | 17 | 42 |
| Los Angeles Harbor College | 9,463 | 0.74 | 19 | 22 |
| College of San Mateo | 9,901 | 0.10 | 22 | 86 |
| Clovis Community College | 10,358 | 0.58 | 25 | 33 |
| Citrus College | 10,429 | 0.38 | 28 | 53 |
| Santa Barbara City College (this campus) | 12,334 | 0.57 | 64 | 36 |
Sample of 12 campuses from the plot (sorted by enrollment). Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey + IPEDS enrollment. Rate = on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students; lower is safer-reporting, not a personal-risk forecast.
What changed between 2023 and 2024
Reported on-campus incidents at Santa Barbara City College fell from 9 to 4 (-56%). The increase shows up in Aggravated Assault (1 to 2). Falling over the same period: Burglary (4 to 1), Arson (2 to 0) and Motor Vehicle Theft (1 to 0).
This describes reported incidents, not crime. Clery counts move with reporting policy, awareness campaigns and how a campus staffs its security authorities, so a rise can reflect better capture of reports and a fall can reflect worse capture. One year of movement at a single campus is not a trend.
What actually gets reported at Santa Barbara City College
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 5 Clery Act categories here: Burglary, Aggravated Assault, Fondling, Arson and Motor Vehicle Theft.
The remaining 6 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Incest, Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter, Negligent Manslaughter and Rape. Under the Clery Act that zero is an affirmative report that nothing in the category occurred, not an absence of data, which is why the table below lists those rows rather than dropping them.
Counts describe incidents reported under the Clery Act for the on-campus geography. Reporting practice varies between institutions, so counts are not a direct measure of relative safety.
Crime Statistics by Year
11 categories 3 reporting years on-campus onlySanta Barbara City College: Criminal Offenses by year
Declining 20% (5 → 4 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2024 | 4 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Fondling | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Arson | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Incest | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statutory Rape | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: US Dept of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey. Table figures show the Criminal Offenses section; other Clery tables are separate
Arrests & Disciplinary Actions
36 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 5 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
Santa Barbara City College vs peer institutions
Side-by-side safety scores for 3 peers of similar enrollment
Scores are $2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students (lower is fewer in those categories).
CA
California State University-East Bay
2.60 incidents / 1,000 students
DC
American University
2.19 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Santa Barbara City College sits on price and outcomes
At $11,315, Santa Barbara City College's reported average net price is cheaper than 25% among 492 California colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $20,161.
- $11,315
- average net price
- $20,161
- California median
- 3.2×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $10,211
- reported income-bracket spread
Aid here is steeply income-scaled. Families reporting under $30,000 of income record a net price of $9,333, while those above $110,000 record $19,544 - roughly 2.1 times as much. A published average of $11,315 therefore describes very few families well; the bracket nearest your own income is the more useful figure.
Median reported earnings six years after entry are $35,744, roughly 3.2 times a year of net price. That is a workable ratio, though it says nothing about how long the programme takes to finish. Only 34% complete within six years. Most students here do not finish, which is the single most important number on this page for anyone weighing the cost.
Average net price reflects grant and scholarship aid for aided students, not a personal offer. Earnings cover former students who received federal aid; neither measure predicts an individual's outcome.
Academic & Financial Profile
Tuition & Costs
- In-State Tuition
- $1,240
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $10,432
- Avg Net Price
- $11,315
- Median Debt
- $11,000
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 18%
Outcomes
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $35,744
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $47,647
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 64%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 692 similar institutions by enrollment size.
California State University-East Bay
Hayward, CA · 12,326 enrolled
Safety Score 2.60
American University
Washington, DC · 12,321 enrolled
Safety Score 2.19
Nassau Community College
Garden City, NY · 12,301 enrolled
Safety Score 0.81
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID · 12,286 enrolled
Safety Score 2.28
Community College of Rhode Island
Warwick, RI · 12,275 enrolled
Safety Score 0.16
Closest by National Rank
Santa Barbara City College (national rank #382) sits near Oregon Institute of Technology (#381) and Piedmont Virginia Community College (#383) on the scored national list, nearest by rank, not by size or state.
Oregon Institute of Technology
Klamath Falls, OR
National Rank #381
Piedmont Virginia Community College
Charlottesville, VA
National Rank #383
Kent State University at Stark
North Canton, OH
National Rank #380
Southwest Tennessee Community College
Memphis, TN
National Rank #384
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
National Rank #385
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Santa Barbara City College, both outside CA so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Nassau Community College
Garden City, NY · 12,301 enrolled
Safety score 0.81
Community College of Rhode Island
Warwick, RI · 12,275 enrolled
Safety score 0.16
Palo Alto College
San Antonio, TX · 12,395 enrolled
Safety score 0.40
Grand Rapids Community College
Grand Rapids, MI · 12,468 enrolled
Safety score 0.72
College of Lake County
Grayslake, IL · 12,530 enrolled
Safety score 0.56
Wayne County Community College District
Detroit, MI · 12,137 enrolled
Safety score 0.08
Harrisburg Area Community College
Harrisburg, PA · 12,585 enrolled
Safety score 0.08
Texas State Technical College
Waco, TX · 12,077 enrolled
Safety score 1.49
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Piedmont Virginia Community College
Charlottesville, VA · 5,263 enrolled
Safety score 0.57
Southwest Tennessee Community College
Memphis, TN · 7,004 enrolled
Safety score 0.57
Georgia State University-Perimeter College
Atlanta, GA · 17,437 enrolled
Safety score 0.57
Volunteer State Community College
Gallatin, TN · 6,963 enrolled
Safety score 0.57
Flint Hills Technical College
Emporia, KS · 1,794 enrolled
Safety score 0.56
South Georgia Technical College
Americus, GA · 1,795 enrolled
Safety score 0.56
Macomb Community College
Warren, MI · 16,300 enrolled
Safety score 0.55
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Santa Barbara City College safe?
Santa Barbara City College has a safety score of 0.57 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #382 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: California State University-East Bay (2.60/1k). Same-state same-level set: Ventura College (0.25/1k); Merced College (0.32/1k); Los Angeles Trade Technical College (1.36/1k); Glendale Community College (0.91/1k); Moreno Valley College (0.17/1k); Santiago Canyon College (0.25/1k); Chabot College (1.09/1k); College of the Desert (0.31/1k).
What crimes are reported at Santa Barbara City College?
For calendar year 2024, Santa Barbara City College reported Aggravated Assault (2), Burglary (1) and Fondling (1) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does Santa Barbara City College compare to similar schools?
Santa Barbara City College reports 65% fewer 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than California State University-East Bay. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: California State University-East Bay (2.60/1k); American University (2.19/1k); Nassau Community College (0.81/1k); University of Idaho (2.28/1k); Community College of Rhode Island (0.16/1k). Same-state same-level set: Ventura College (0.25/1k); Merced College (0.32/1k); Los Angeles Trade Technical College (1.36/1k); Glendale Community College (0.91/1k); Moreno Valley College (0.17/1k); Santiago Canyon College (0.25/1k); Chabot College (1.09/1k); College of the Desert (0.31/1k).
Does Santa Barbara City College have fire safety data?
Santa Barbara City College has no on-campus residential fire filing in this Clery release.
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