San Francisco Auto theft
San Francisco · Auto theft · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, San Francisco police open data recorded 4,132 auto theft incidents, 5.9% of all 70,225 incidents reported in the city that year and down 42.7% from 2024. That is about 499 per 100,000 residents, compared with 486 per 100,000 across the 56 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 2,855 auto theft incidents have been published.
Auto theft in San Francisco by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 2,855 | — | — |
| 2025 | 4,132 | 499 | down 42.7% |
| 2024 | 7,208 | 871 | down 19.7% |
| 2023 | 8,977 | 1,085 | up 10.9% |
| 2022 | 8,092 | 978 | up 3.5% |
| 2021 | 7,815 | 944 | up 4.8% |
| 2020 | 7,458 | 901 | up 38.3% |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 57,247 auto theft incidents.
Neighborhoods with the most auto theft (2025)
- Bayview Hunters Point 499 incidents
- Mission 470 incidents
- South of Market 286 incidents
- Tenderloin 272 incidents
- Financial District/South Beach 174 incidents
- Excelsior 150 incidents
- Western Addition 142 incidents
- Sunset/Parkside 134 incidents
Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.
Questions
How many auto theft incidents were reported in San Francisco in 2025?
4,132, according to San Francisco Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is auto theft going up or down in San Francisco?
Reported auto theft was down 42.7% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 48.9% compared with 2022 (falling over three years).
Where does this data come from?
Source: San Francisco 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.
Other crime types in San Francisco
- San Francisco theft 21,356 in 2025
- San Francisco other 20,630 in 2025
- San Francisco assault 6,680 in 2025
- San Francisco vandalism 6,237 in 2025
- San Francisco fraud 4,825 in 2025
- San Francisco burglary 4,471 in 2025
- San Francisco robbery 1,762 in 2025
- San Francisco sexual assault 88 in 2025
- San Francisco homicide 44 in 2025