San Diego Sexual assault

San Diego · Sexual assault · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, San Diego police open data recorded 808 sexual assault incidents, 1.1% of all 76,420 incidents reported in the city that year and up 2.9% from 2024. That is about 57.5 per 100,000 residents, compared with 80.9 per 100,000 across the 42 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 637 sexual assault incidents have been published.

Sexual assault in San Diego by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)637——
202580857.5up 2.9%
202478555.9down 2.5%
202380557.3down 11.3%
202290864.7down 6.4%
202197069.1up 17.4%
202082658.8—

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 5,739 sexual assault incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most sexual assault (2025)

  1. East Village 67 incidents
  2. Pacific Beach 38 incidents
  3. Hillcrest 30 incidents
  4. La Jolla 20 incidents
  5. University City 19 incidents
  6. Mission Valley West 19 incidents
  7. Core-Columbia 17 incidents
  8. Gaslamp 17 incidents

Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.

Questions

How many sexual assault incidents were reported in San Diego in 2025?

808, according to San Diego Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is sexual assault going up or down in San Diego?

Reported sexual assault was up 2.9% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 11.0% compared with 2022 (falling over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: San Diego Police Department 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.

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