San Francisco Fraud

San Francisco · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, San Francisco police open data recorded 4,825 fraud incidents, 6.9% of all 70,225 incidents reported in the city that year and up 6.2% from 2024. That is about 583 per 100,000 residents, compared with 309 per 100,000 across the 58 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 3,244 fraud incidents have been published.

Fraud in San Francisco by year

Year	Incidents	Per 100K	vs prior year
2026 (year to date)	3,244	—	—
2025	4,825	583	up 6.2%
2024	4,543	549	down 23.9%
2023	5,971	722	down 1.1%
2022	6,039	730	up 31.1%
2021	4,608	557	down 8.6%
2020	5,041	609	down 14.1%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 46,294 fraud incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most fraud (2025)

Mission 406 incidents
Sunset/Parkside 341 incidents
South of Market 341 incidents
Tenderloin 319 incidents
Bayview Hunters Point 260 incidents
Financial District/South Beach 260 incidents
Western Addition 171 incidents
West of Twin Peaks 159 incidents

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

Questions

How many fraud incidents were reported in San Francisco in 2025?

4,825, according to San Francisco Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is fraud going up or down in San Francisco?

Reported fraud was up 6.2% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 20.1% 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.

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