San Bernardino, CA crime rate
In 2025 the San Bernardino Police Department reported 893.8 violent crimes and 2,460.4 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
How does San Bernardino compare with California and the US?
Arson has no FBI state or US estimate, so its row shows San Bernardino only.
What offenses were reported in San Bernardino, 2025?
| Offense | Reported | Per 100k | California | US | vs 2024 | vs 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | ||||||
| Violent crime | 2,015 | 893.8 | 432.7 | 327.6 | down 0.4% | 2021: not reported |
| Murder | 22 | 9.8 | 3.5 | 4.1 | down 11.7% | 2021: not reported |
| Rape | 146 | 64.8 | 33.4 | 36.1 | up 29.9% | 2021: not reported |
| Robbery | 485 | 215.1 | 94.9 | 49.4 | down 10.8% | 2021: not reported |
| Aggravated assault | 1,362 | 604.1 | 301.0 | 238.0 | up 1.6% | 2021: not reported |
| Property crime | ||||||
| Property crime | 5,547 | 2,460.4 | 1,792.2 | 1,534.8 | down 15.8% | 2021: not reported |
| Burglary | 836 | 370.8 | 275.1 | 193.6 | down 18.5% | 2021: not reported |
| Larceny-theft | 3,468 | 1,538.3 | 1,200.5 | 1,144.1 | down 8.3% | 2021: not reported |
| Motor vehicle theft | 1,195 | 530.1 | 316.7 | 197.0 | down 30.7% | 2021: not reported |
| Arson | 48 | 21.3 | Not estimated | Not estimated | down 8.2% | 2021: not reported |
Reported = offenses known to the San Bernardino 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. No rate is drawn for that year, and the line breaks there.
Show as a table
| Year | San Bernardino | United States | California |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Not reported | 387.0 | 481.2 |
| 2022 | 1,185.9 | 388.7 | 503.6 |
| 2023 | 1,071.2 | 379.5 | 506.9 |
| 2024 | 897.1 | 362.9 | 475.3 |
| 2025 | 893.8 | 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 | San Bernardino | United States | California |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Not reported | 1,832.3 | 2,165.3 |
| 2022 | 2,995.6 | 1,973.8 | 2,361.5 |
| 2023 | 3,251.7 | 1,934.1 | 2,326.1 |
| 2024 | 2,920.9 | 1,761.1 | 1,964.9 |
| 2025 | 2,460.4 | 1,534.8 | 1,792.2 |
Is San Bernardino safe?
We don't rate cities as safe or unsafe. What the FBI's numbers show: in 2025 the violent crime rate the San Bernardino Police Department reported, 893.8 per 100,000 residents, was higher than California's 432.7, and higher than the US rate of 327.6 (FBI estimates). It fell 0.4% 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.
The violent crime rate for 2025 was 893.8 per 100,000 residents covered by the San Bernardino Police Department, based on 2,015 offenses reported to the FBI. California's estimate was 432.7 and the US rate 327.6, so the city came in at 2.1 times the state and 2.7 times the nation. For property crime the rate was 2,460.4, 1.4 times the state and 1.6 times the national figure.
Violent crime has dropped 24.6% since 2022, from 1,185.9, and 0.4% since 2024. Property crime fell 17.9% from 2022 and 15.8% from 2024. Murder fell the most of the violent offenses since 2022, 69.7%, from 32.3 to 9.8 per 100,000, and the city had 22 homicides in 2025.
Rape had the largest rise of the violent offenses in both periods, 28.8% from 2022 and 29.9% from 2024, reaching 64.8 per 100,000. Robbery, at 215.1 per 100,000, was 4.4 times the US rate. Motor vehicle theft fell the most of the property offenses in the last year, 30.7%, but remained 2.7 times the national rate.
Aggravated assault was 68% of violent crime, and larceny-theft 63% of property crime. No data was reported for 2021, while the other 4 of 5 years each have 12 months. The department switched to NIBRS in 2025.
The county sheriff, California State University police, the community college district and the school district police all report separately, so their cases are not in these numbers.
Written from the numbers on this page. Every figure and every comparison is checked against the stored FBI data before publishing.
Police employees, 2025: 1.92 per 1,000 residents (290 officers, 142 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, San Bernardino Police Department (ORI CA0361000), 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)
- San Bernardino Police Department (CA0361000): violent crime, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0361000_violent_crime__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Bernardino Police Department (CA0361000): murder, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0361000_homicide__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Bernardino Police Department (CA0361000): rape, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0361000_rape__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Bernardino Police Department (CA0361000): robbery, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0361000_robbery__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Bernardino Police Department (CA0361000): aggravated assault, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0361000_aggravated_assault__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Bernardino Police Department (CA0361000): property crime, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0361000_property_crime__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Bernardino Police Department (CA0361000): burglary, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0361000_burglary__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Bernardino Police Department (CA0361000): larceny-theft, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0361000_larceny__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Bernardino Police Department (CA0361000): motor vehicle theft, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0361000_motor_vehicle_theft__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Bernardino Police Department (CA0361000): arson, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0361000_arson__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Bernardino Police Department (CA0361000): police employees, 2021 to 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/pe_agency_CA0361000__from-2021-to-2025.json)