2025 Compare Cities Crime:
Fayetteville, NC vs Santa Barbara, CA

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- Santa Barbara has 53% less violent crime than Fayetteville.
- Santa Barbara has 39% less property crime than Fayetteville.
 Fayetteville, NCSanta Barbara, CAUnited States
 Violent Crime  Unlock18.222.7
 Property Crime69.4  Unlock35.4

Crime is ranked on a scale of 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime)

Reviews for Fayetteville    46 Reviews

I have lived in Fayetteville for 21 years and I LOVE IT! Fayetteville is a military town and that is what brought my husband and I here originally. Since January 2000  More

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I've lived in the area for a little over ten years - after moving around to many, many places in my career - and I find that Fay is overall pretty much average. Most of  More

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I've lived in the area for a little over ten years - after moving around to many, many places in my career - and I find that Fay is overall pretty much average. Most of  More

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Reviews for Santa Barbara    51 Reviews

I moved to Santa Barbara around 23 years ago to study at Brooks, which like most of the Santa Barbara that I knew—has been destroyed. Homelessness, drugs, gangs, high  More

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I fell in love with Santa Barbara about thirty years ago and finally moved here a few years ago. Because of the price of homes, it is an expensive place to live. The  More

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If you like high crime, paying a $4,500 a month mortgage and crazy high taxes, this is the place for you. It’s too bad because it wasn’t always like this. When I moved  More

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Cities with the Least Crime Near Fayetteville, North CarolinaCrime Index
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 Stedman, NC32.25
 Falcon, NC33
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 Rockfish, NC37.75
 Dundarrach, NC37.95
 Godwin, NC39.05
 Linden, NC39.15

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