Oakland, CA crime rate
In 2025 the Oakland Police Department reported 1,475.4 violent crimes and 5,254.9 property crimes per 100,000 residents it covers. The FBI's estimates for California and the US for the same year are beside each number.
Data as of 2025 (FBI), checked October 30, 2026. How we got these numbers
Data notes.
- Violent crime, 2023: unusual change, check the source. 2022: 6,516, 2023: 15,490, 2024: 8,376 (over 160% of both neighbouring years). Changes to and from 2023 are not shown.
- Motor vehicle theft, 2023: unusual change, check the source. 2022: 7,697, 2023: 16,510, 2024: 9,914 (over 160% of both neighbouring years). Changes to and from 2023 are not shown.
- Aggravated assault, 2023: unusual change, check the source. 2022: 3,329, 2023: 11,169, 2024: 5,039 (over 160% of both neighbouring years). Changes to and from 2023 are not shown.
How does Oakland compare with California and the US?
Arson has no FBI state or US estimate, so its row shows Oakland only.
What offenses were reported in Oakland, 2025?
| Offense | Reported | Per 100k | California | US | vs 2024 | vs 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | ||||||
| Violent crime | 6,554 | 1,475.4 | 432.7 | 327.6 | down 23.4% | 2021: not reported |
| Murder | 55 | 12.4 | 3.5 | 4.1 | down 33.3% | 2021: not reported |
| Rape | 324 | 72.9 | 33.4 | 36.1 | up 7.2% | 2021: not reported |
| Robbery | 1,743 | 392.4 | 94.9 | 49.4 | down 42.3% | 2021: not reported |
| Aggravated assault | 4,432 | 997.7 | 301.0 | 238.0 | down 13.9% | 2021: not reported |
| Property crime | ||||||
| Property crime | 23,343 | 5,254.9 | 1,792.2 | 1,534.8 | down 27.6% | 2021: not reported |
| Burglary | 2,329 | 524.3 | 275.1 | 193.6 | down 33.4% | 2021: not reported |
| Larceny-theft | 14,452 | 3,253.4 | 1,200.5 | 1,144.1 | down 21.9% | 2021: not reported |
| Motor vehicle theft | 6,431 | 1,447.7 | 316.7 | 197.0 | down 36.5% | 2021: not reported |
| Arson | 131 | 29.5 | Not estimated | Not estimated | up 12.6% | 2021: not reported |
Reported = offenses known to the Oakland Police Department and sent to the FBI. California and US are FBI estimates for the same year. Changes compare rates of full years only.
Violent crime rate, 2021 to 2025
2021: not reported; 2023: flagged: unusual change, see data note. No rate is drawn for those years, and the line breaks there.
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| Year | Oakland | United States | California |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Not reported | 387.0 | 481.2 |
| 2022 | 1,521.1 | 388.7 | 503.6 |
| 2023 | Flagged: unusual change, see data note | 379.5 | 506.9 |
| 2024 | 1,925.3 | 362.9 | 475.3 |
| 2025 | 1,475.4 | 327.6 | 432.7 |
Property crime rate, 2021 to 2025
2021: not reported. No rate is drawn for that year, and the line breaks there.
Show as a table
| Year | Oakland | United States | California |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Not reported | 1,832.3 | 2,165.3 |
| 2022 | 6,519.5 | 1,973.8 | 2,361.5 |
| 2023 | 10,153.4 | 1,934.1 | 2,326.1 |
| 2024 | 7,256.5 | 1,761.1 | 1,964.9 |
| 2025 | 5,254.9 | 1,534.8 | 1,792.2 |
Is Oakland safe?
We don't rate cities as safe or unsafe. What the FBI's numbers show: in 2025 the violent crime rate the Oakland Police Department reported, 1,475.4 per 100,000 residents, was higher than California's 432.7, and higher than the US rate of 327.6 (FBI estimates). It fell 23.4% from 2024.
What these numbers can't tell you:
- How crime differs between neighborhoods (the FBI publishes agency totals only).
- Crimes nobody reported to the police.
- How many offenses involved visitors and commuters, who are not in the population count.
Oakland's 2025 violent crime rate was 1,475.4 per 100,000 residents covered by the Oakland Police Department, 3.4 times the California estimate of 432.7 and 4.5 times the US rate of 327.6. The department had 6,554 violent and 23,343 property crimes reported to the FBI that year. Property crime ran at 5,254.9 per 100,000, or 2.9 times the state figure and 3.4 times the national rate of 1,534.8.
From 2024 to 2025, violent crime fell 23.4% and property crime 27.6%. Measured from 2022, violent crime is down 3.0% and property crime 19.4%. Murder fell the most of the violent offenses from 2022 to 2025, 56.0%, to 12.4 per 100,000, with 55 homicides in 2025.
Robbery had the largest fall of the violent offenses in the last year, 42.3%, yet at 392.4 per 100,000 it was 7.9 times the US rate. Aggravated assault had the largest rise in that group since 2022, 28.4%, and made up 68% of violent crime. Motor vehicle theft fell the most of the property offenses from 2024, 36.5%, to 1,447.7 per 100,000, 7.3 times the national rate.
The 2023 counts for violent crime, aggravated assault and motor vehicle theft are flagged as unusual changes and are not compared. No data was reported for 2021, and the other 4 of 5 years have all 12 months. The department does not report to NIBRS, and it had 1.97 police employees per 1,000 residents in 2025.
The Alameda County Sheriff's Office reports separately, so its cases are outside these figures.
Written from the numbers on this page. Every figure and every comparison is checked against the stored FBI data before publishing.
Police employees, 2025: 1.97 per 1,000 residents (633 officers, 241 civilians), FBI Crime Data Explorer. Shown as context, not as a measure of crime.
Other California cities
The nearest California cities with a page, in alphabetical order. VC = violent crime per 100,000, 2025.
Sources
- FBI Crime Data Explorer, Oakland Police Department (ORI CA0010900), offenses known to law enforcement and police employees, 2021 to 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026. Crime Data Explorer
- FBI Crime Data Explorer, California and United States estimated crime (Summary Reporting System estimates), 2021 to 2025.
- FBI, "UCR Statistics: Their Proper Use" (why we don't rank cities).
Every stored file behind this page (11)
- Oakland Police Department (CA0010900): violent crime, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0010900_violent_crime__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Oakland Police Department (CA0010900): murder, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0010900_homicide__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Oakland Police Department (CA0010900): rape, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0010900_rape__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Oakland Police Department (CA0010900): robbery, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0010900_robbery__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Oakland Police Department (CA0010900): aggravated assault, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0010900_aggravated_assault__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Oakland Police Department (CA0010900): property crime, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0010900_property_crime__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Oakland Police Department (CA0010900): burglary, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0010900_burglary__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Oakland Police Department (CA0010900): larceny-theft, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0010900_larceny__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Oakland Police Department (CA0010900): motor vehicle theft, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0010900_motor_vehicle_theft__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Oakland Police Department (CA0010900): arson, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0010900_arson__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Oakland Police Department (CA0010900): police employees, 2021 to 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/pe_agency_CA0010900__from-2021-to-2025.json)