College West
Neighborhood Intelligence

CivicScout counts San Diego Police Department offense reports that carry a map location inside the College West police-neighborhood outline. Citywide, about 3% of offense reports, and about the same share of reports of serious violent crime (about 1 in 8 rape reports), carries no map location and is not counted, and the newest weeks are still being filled in as reports are approved, so the counts understate crime, violent crime included, and cannot show that an area has little of it. Sex offenses are shown at block level, about 100 meters, without a case number. The department’s own process entries (mental-health holds, warrants, probation and parole lines, citations and infractions) are not counted. Incidents handled by other police agencies do not appear: federal military bases, the airport and the Port of San Diego tidelands (the Port’s Harbor Police), UC San Diego and San Diego State University (campus police), the City, Mesa and Miramar colleges, the California Highway Patrol on the freeways, the Sheriff in the unincorporated county, and the police departments of Coronado, National City, Chula Vista and the other neighboring cities. The San Diego State University campus, inside this area, has its own campus police, so incidents on the campus are not in the SDPD feed.

Permits issued in College West over the past year, still open, are mostly in the category combination building permits. The City issues no building permits on the San Diego State University campus, inside this area, so the permit data has none there. The absence of permits there is not a finding about construction. San Diego’s permit data covers about the past 21 months and leaves out trade, sign, traffic-control and right-of-way permits; a permit with no map location (about 1 in 400 active permits) is not counted in any neighborhood.

Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.

Zoning in College West is mostly Residential - Single Unit, Open Space - Residential and Residential - Multiple Unit, by area; the exact district varies by parcel.

The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.

A CivicScout report for any College West address combines permits, police reports, 311 requests, parks and zoning within a half mile. San Diego’s 311 data (Get It Done) shows only open requests from the past 90 days, so a request that has been resolved is not shown and an address with none listed may still have had one.