Crime rate & statistics
San Francisco Crime Rate & Safety Statistics
Where San Francisco stands against national crime benchmarks, with the property-crime story front and center.
Key indices
San Francisco crime at a glance
Index values are scaled so that 100 equals the U.S. average.
Your odds
Estimated victimization risk
Calibrated against national benchmark rates and expressed as everyday odds.
Trend
Is crime rising or falling in San Francisco?
Reported incidents per month over the most recent year of data.
Context
How to read these numbers
San Francisco's defining statistic is a high property crime rate, fueled heavily by theft from vehicles, which has drawn national attention for years. Violent crime, by contrast, sits closer to the levels of comparable large cities. The citywide picture varies sharply between the residential west and the central neighborhoods.
We convert San Francisco's reported incidents into estimated rates per 100,000 residents and then restate them as plain odds — for example, a rough “1 in N” annual chance for a household. The index is set so 100 equals the national average, and each neighborhood is graded on an A-to-F curve calibrated across U.S. cities.