Sonoma County Fraud
Sonoma County · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Sonoma County police open data recorded 397 fraud incidents, 9.5% of all 4,186 incidents reported in the city that year and up 7.0% from 2024. So far in 2026, 320 fraud incidents have been published.
Fraud in Sonoma County by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 320 | — | — |
| 2025 | 397 | — | up 7.0% |
| 2024 | 371 | — | up 20.1% |
| 2023 | 309 | — | up 19.3% |
| 2022 | 259 | — | down 14.2% |
| 2021 | 302 | — | down 1.6% |
| 2020 | 307 | — | down 39.9% |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 13,135 fraud incidents.
Neighborhoods with the most fraud (2025)
- Santa Rosa 90 incidents
- Sonoma 87 incidents
- Windsor 51 incidents
- Petaluma 24 incidents
- Bellevue 19 incidents
- Forestville 14 incidents
- Twin Hills 11 incidents
- Graton 11 incidents
Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.
Questions
How many fraud incidents were reported in Sonoma County in 2025?
397, according to Sonoma County Sheriff's Office open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is fraud going up or down in Sonoma County?
Reported fraud was up 7.0% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 53.3% compared with 2022 (rising over three years).
Where does this data come from?
Source: Sonoma County Sheriff's Office open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.
Other crime types in Sonoma County
- Sonoma County other 1,793 in 2025
- Sonoma County assault 693 in 2025
- Sonoma County theft 612 in 2025
- Sonoma County burglary 314 in 2025
- Sonoma County vandalism 238 in 2025
- Sonoma County sexual assault 90 in 2025
- Sonoma County robbery 23 in 2025
- Sonoma County auto theft 21 in 2025
- Sonoma County homicide 5 in 2025