San Francisco Theft

San Francisco · Theft · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, San Francisco police open data recorded 21,356 theft incidents, 30.4% of all 70,225 incidents reported in the city that year and down 21.3% from 2024. That is about 2,581 per 100,000 residents, compared with 1,637 per 100,000 across the 60 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 16,558 theft incidents have been published.

Theft in San Francisco by year

Year	Incidents	Per 100K	vs prior year
2026 (year to date)	16,558	—	—
2025	21,356	2,581	down 21.3%
2024	27,119	3,277	down 30.1%
2023	38,774	4,686	down 10.0%
2022	43,076	5,205	up 13.4%
2021	37,993	4,591	up 21.2%
2020	31,343	3,788	down 35.3%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 313,313 theft incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most theft (2025)

South of Market 2,329 incidents
Mission 1,692 incidents
Financial District/South Beach 1,384 incidents
Tenderloin 1,373 incidents
Bayview Hunters Point 798 incidents
Nob Hill 763 incidents
Castro/Upper Market 733 incidents
Western Addition 707 incidents

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

Questions

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

21,356, according to San Francisco Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is theft going up or down in San Francisco?

Reported theft was down 21.3% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 50.4% 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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