2018–2025 · 4 published indicators
San Francisco
crime trends.
San Francisco Police incident reports for assault, auto theft, burglary, and robbery.
Sources & methodologyBy category · 2025
Trends across 4 indicators
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Citywide · 41 analysis neighborhoods
Assault count, 2025 · by neighborhood
Local boundaries shaded by one category at a time, in the active unit, for the selected year. Hover for a quick read; click to open the full neighborhood view.
Count by year
counts · 2016–2025 · baseline = all categoriesView chart data
Full years only; incomplete YTD totals are excluded. Not available means a value is missing, not zero.
| Year | Assault | All categories (baseline) |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 8,903 | 24,863 |
| 2019 | 8,670 | 23,492 |
| 2020 | 6,867 | 26,347 |
| 2021 | 7,614 | 26,968 |
| 2022 | 8,448 | 26,681 |
| 2023 | 8,537 | 27,462 |
| 2024 | 8,252 | 24,167 |
| 2025 | 7,265 | 17,863 |
How the series is built
Counts come from SFPD incident reports filed from 2018 onward, grouped by incident year, category, and analysis neighborhood. Assault includes simple and aggravated assault. Auto theft is motor vehicle theft. 2026 is year-to-date.
The retired 2003–May 2018 extract is a different system, overlaps 2018, and has no analysis neighborhood, so 2016 and 2017 stay blank. Larceny theft stays out because the file does not publish a dollar threshold.
Population
Citywide rates use U.S. Census Bureau estimates for San Francisco city. 2016–2019 are from the 2010-based vintage and 2020–2025 from the 2020-based vintage. Neighborhood rates use 2020 Census block-group population assigned by each block group’s internal point. Golden Gate Park and McLaren Park contain very little housing, so their rates are not a residential comparison. Reports with no analysis neighborhood stay in the city total.
0.8% of these indicator reports could not be placed in a local area and stay in the city totals only.
Reading the data
Three numbers that need context
Data summary for San Francisco-wide
| Year | Assault | Auto Theft | Burglary | Robbery |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 101.2 | 60.0 | 80.4 | 41.0 |
| 2019 | 98.7 | 61.3 | 68.5 | 38.8 |
| 2020 | 78.5 | 86.3 | 105.1 | 31.2 |
| 2021 | 93.3 | 97.8 | 107.8 | 31.5 |
| 2022 | 103.9 | 101.1 | 89.5 | 33.6 |
| 2023 | 104.5 | 110.0 | 83.1 | 38.5 |
| 2024 | 100.5 | 88.3 | 76.0 | 29.5 |
| 2025 | 88.0 | 50.1 | 55.6 | 22.6 |
About this data
How to read these figures
- What does “crime” mean for San Francisco?
- Crime by analysis neighborhood means the indicators San Francisco Police Department publishes for San Francisco (2018–2025). They are reported incident or offence counts, not arrests, charges, or a safety score. The same heading in another city is not the same offence.
- Where do the numbers come from?
- Police figures come from San Francisco Police Department. Area boundaries come from City and County of San Francisco · analysis neighborhoods. Rates, when a denominator exists, use U.S. Census Bureau · population and are shown per 10,000 residents. A missing year, indicator, or boundary stays missing.
- How often is this updated?
- The site is updated periodically, with no fixed public schedule and no live feed. Comparable charts use full years. A year-to-date control, when the page has one, labels the partial year separately.
- What does this not show?
- Drug offences and overdose deaths are separate series, not part of these analysis neighborhoods. There is no single cross-city crime index. Counting rules and source links are on the San Francisco about page.