San Francisco Crime Map

California · Latest 24h · updated 2026-11-12

Latest 24h	126 incidents, 32 violent (2026-11-10)
2026 YTD	55,932 incidents through October
2025 (full year)	70,225 incidents
Full archive	820,586 incidents (2018–2026)
Per 100K / year	8,486

Source: San Francisco Police Department open data.

About crime in San Francisco

Latest mapped day. San Francisco recorded 126 incidents on 2026-11-10, including 32 violent-category incidents. This is a short-window snapshot of police open data, not a personal-safety score.

Year-over-year context

San Francisco recorded 82,829 incidents in 2024 and 70,225 in 2025, a 15.2% decrease. Year-to-year comparisons depend on consistent source coverage and reporting definitions.

Latest 24h (2026-11-10) category breakdown

Other	60
Assault	29
Theft	17
Vandalism	11
Robbery	3
Fraud	3
Burglary	2
Auto theft	1

Where incidents were mapped

South of Market: 28
Mission: 28
Tenderloin: 12
Bayview Hunters Point: 9
Nob Hill: 6
Hayes Valley: 5
Financial District/South Beach: 5
Portola: 3

Across 2018–2026, the current archive contains 820,586 incidents for San Francisco. Missing categories or periods reflect what the source publishes; missing is not zero.

San Francisco crime overview

Essay updated 2026-11-12 · figures above are from the latest data

TL;DR. San Francisco recorded 70,225 police-reported incidents in 2025, down 15.2% from 82,829 in 2024. Theft was the most common category with 21,356 incidents, or 30.4% of the total, followed by Other at 20,630. Assault accounted for 6,680 incidents. South of Market led neighborhoods with 8,844 incidents. Data are current through November 2026 and reflect San Francisco Police Department citywide reports.

About this data

TheCrimeMaps plots police-reported incidents in San Francisco, California, using open data from the San Francisco Police Department. For 2025, the map shows 70,225 police-reported incidents in calendar year 2025, with data current through November 2026. Points can be filtered by categories including Theft, Other and Assault, and by neighborhood across the city's 41 named neighborhoods. The archive spans 2018 to 2026 with 820,586 incidents across all years combined.

That equals 8,486.1 reported incidents per 100,000 residents in 2025, based on the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 population estimate of 827,526 for the city. Violent-category incidents, defined as assault plus sexual assault plus robbery plus shooting plus homicide, totaled 8,574, or 1,036.1 reported incidents per 100,000 residents in 2025, representing 12.2% of the 2025 total.

Recent trend

Reported incidents declined 15.2% from 82,829 in 2024 to 70,225 in 2025, based on two consecutive complete calendar years. Earlier complete years were higher, including 110,716 in 2018, 107,853 in 2019 and 103,572 in 2022, followed by 100,925 in 2023 before the drop in 2024 and 2025. Counts dipped to 89,559 in 2020 before rising to 97,513 in 2021. For the current partial window, January–October 2026 recorded 55,932 incidents, down 5.1% from 58,915 in the same months of 2025. Data are current through November 2026.

Category breakdown

In 2025, Theft was the most reported category with 21,356 incidents, or 30.4% of the total. Other ranked second with 20,630 incidents, or 29.4%, reflecting the source grouping of weapons offenses, threats, harassment, drugs, impaired and dangerous driving, and other crime types. Assault ranked third with 6,680 incidents, or 9.5%. The next categories were Vandalism with 6,237 incidents, or 8.9%, Fraud with 4,825 incidents, or 6.9%, and Burglary with 4,471 incidents, or 6.4%. Within Other in 2025, Other crime accounted for 14,431 incidents, Drugs for 4,974 and Weapons offenses for 1,225. Violent-category incidents totaled 8,574, or 12.2% of 2025 reports. Across all six leading categories, Theft and Other together dominate the 2025 mix.

Where incidents concentrate

For 2025, South of Market led with 8,844 incidents, or 12.6% of the city total, followed by Mission with 8,319 incidents, or 11.8%, and Tenderloin with 8,141 incidents, or 11.6%. Bayview Hunters Point recorded 4,245 incidents, or 6.0%, and Financial District/South Beach recorded 3,678 incidents, or 5.2%. These counts are ranked across 41 named neighborhoods. Neighborhood totals follow where people live, work and visit, so they reflect activity and reporting patterns and are not a risk score. Western Addition recorded 2,251 incidents, or 3.2%, next in the ranking.

What this means

San Francisco's 2025 total of 70,225 is the lowest among complete years from 2018 to 2025, down from 110,716 in 2018 and 100,925 in 2023. Theft at 21,356 incidents, or 30.4%, and Other at 20,630 incidents, or 29.4%, together shape the 2025 mix, while Assault follows at 6,680 incidents, or 9.5%. South of Market with 8,844 incidents, or 12.6%, Mission with 8,319 incidents, or 11.8%, and Tenderloin with 8,141 incidents, or 11.6%, lead neighborhood counts.

FAQ

How many incidents were reported in San Francisco in 2025?
San Francisco recorded 70,225 police-reported incidents in calendar year 2025. That equals 8,486.1 reported incidents per 100,000 residents in 2025, based on the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 population estimate of 827,526 for the city. The total covers all categories tracked by TheCrimeMaps for the 12 months of 2025.

What type of crime was reported most in San Francisco in 2025?
Theft was the most reported category in 2025, with 21,356 incidents, or 30.4% of the 70,225 total. Other was second with 20,630 incidents, or 29.4%, followed by Assault with 6,680 incidents, or 9.5%. Vandalism, Fraud and Burglary accounted for 6,237, 4,825 and 4,471 incidents in 2025.

Did reported crime increase or decrease from 2024 to 2025?
Reported incidents fell between the two consecutive complete calendar years. San Francisco recorded 70,225 incidents in 2025, compared with 82,829 in 2024, a decrease of 15.2%. For the same months of January–October in both years, 2026 recorded 55,932 incidents compared with 58,915 in 2025, a decrease of 5.1%.

Which neighborhoods had the highest counts in 2025?
In 2025, South of Market recorded 8,844 incidents, or 12.6% of the city total, followed by Mission with 8,319 incidents, or 11.8%, and Tenderloin with 8,141 incidents, or 11.6%. Bayview Hunters Point recorded 4,245 incidents, or 6.0%, and Financial District/South Beach recorded 3,678 incidents, or 5.2%, among 41 named neighborhoods ranked for 2025.

Where do the San Francisco numbers come from?
The figures on this page come from the San Francisco Police Department, the upstream open-data source for San Francisco. The 2025 total of 70,225 reflects police-reported incidents in calendar year 2025, including 8,574 violent-category incidents counted as assault plus sexual assault plus robbery plus shooting plus homicide in 2025.

How up to date is the San Francisco data?
The data on TheCrimeMaps is current through November 2026. The archive contains 820,586 incidents from all years from 2018 to 2026 combined. The year 2026 in the archive reflects 11 months with data and is partial, so its count of 57,394 is not directly comparable to the complete 12-month total of 70,225 in 2025.

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