San Francisco Sexual assault
San Francisco · Sexual assault · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, San Francisco police open data recorded 88 sexual assault incidents, 0.1% of all 70,225 incidents reported in the city that year and down 58.9% from 2024. That is about 10.6 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, 92 sexual assault incidents have been published.
Sexual assault in San Francisco by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 92 | — | — |
| 2025 | 88 | 10.6 | down 58.9% |
| 2024 | 214 | 25.9 | down 0.9% |
| 2023 | 216 | 26.1 | up 28.6% |
| 2022 | 168 | 20.3 | up 12.0% |
| 2021 | 150 | 18.1 | down 17.6% |
| 2020 | 182 | 22.0 | down 14.6% |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 1,547 sexual assault incidents.
Neighborhoods with the most sexual assault (2025)
- Tenderloin 12 incidents
- Mission 9 incidents
- Bayview Hunters Point 8 incidents
- South of Market 5 incidents
- Sunset/Parkside 4 incidents
- Lone Mountain/USF 4 incidents
- Nob Hill 3 incidents
- Lakeshore 3 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 Francisco in 2025?
88, according to San Francisco Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is sexual assault going up or down in San Francisco?
Reported sexual assault was down 58.9% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 47.6% 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 auto theft 4,132 in 2025
- San Francisco robbery 1,762 in 2025
- San Francisco homicide 44 in 2025