San Francisco Homicide

San Francisco · Homicide · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, San Francisco police open data recorded 44 homicide incidents, 0.1% of all 70,225 incidents reported in the city that year and unchanged from 2024. That is about 5.3 per 100,000 residents, compared with 8.8 per 100,000 across the 59 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 28 homicide incidents have been published.

Homicide in San Francisco by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)28——
2025445.3unchanged
2024445.3down 2.2%
2023455.4up 73.1%
2022263.1—
2021131.6—
2020111.3—

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 247 homicide incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most homicide (2025)

  1. South of Market 13 incidents
  2. Mission 5 incidents
  3. Bayview Hunters Point 4 incidents
  4. Outer Mission 4 incidents
  5. Tenderloin 3 incidents
  6. Visitacion Valley 3 incidents
  7. Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside 2 incidents
  8. Nob Hill 1 incident

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

Questions

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

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

Is homicide going up or down in San Francisco?

Reported homicide was unchanged in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 69.2% compared with 2022 (rising 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

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