Law enforcement recorded 193 crimes in Saratoga in 2025, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's annual crime statistics report, which goes to the Board of Supervisors' Public Safety and Justice Committee at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10.
Property crime accounted for most of the city's total. The report lists 78 larceny and theft cases, 57 burglaries and 10 auto thefts. On the violent side it counts 12 aggravated assaults, four robberies and three rapes, plus 29 simple assaults. There were no homicides and no arsons.
How the rate compares
With a population of 30,418, Saratoga's total works out to 634 reported crimes per 100,000 residents. Of the 14 cities the report ranks, only Los Altos Hills, at 451, came in lower. Cupertino was at 1,586 and Los Gatos-Monte Sereno at 1,710. San Jose had the highest rate on the list, 3,808, followed by Milpitas at 3,673 and Campbell at 3,631.
The report also counts 25 arrests in Saratoga last year, or 82 per 100,000 residents.
One caution applies to those comparisons. Saratoga, like Cupertino and Los Altos Hills, contracts with the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office for police service, and the Sheriff's Office still reported its 2025 numbers under the older FBI summary system, which records only the most serious offense in an incident.
The city police departments in the county reported under the newer incident-based system, which can log several offenses from a single incident, according to the report.