Sorrento Valley
Neighborhood Intelligence

CivicScout counts San Diego Police Department offense reports that carry a map location inside the Sorrento Valley 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. Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, inside this area, is a federal military base with its own police, so incidents on the base are not in the SDPD feed.

Permits issued in Sorrento Valley over the past year, still open, are mostly in the categories building permits, combination building permits and discretionary land-use approvals. The City issues no building permits on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, 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 Sorrento Valley is mostly Industrial - Light, Open Space - Conservation and Agricultural - Residential, by area; the exact district varies by parcel.

The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.

A CivicScout report for any Sorrento Valley 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. Get It Done holds almost no requests on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, inside this area, so none are shown there.